http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/ground-foraging-ideas/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/ground-foraging-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-12634 CJ Jones Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:06:01 +0000 http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=1923#comment-12634 Nothing Pleases my 10 Cockatiels more than a Shoebox or a shipping box, especially if it is filled with plastic Popcorn! (What a MESS!) dump the plastic, and replace it wth real Popcorn for a nutritious snack your Cockatiels will love! I usually try and remove the box before it becomes a nest, but most of my Babies have hatched in cardboard cereal boxes, soda cartons, or shoe boxes! If You have a friend who works in a Warehouse, ask for the empty Cardboard tubes from Shrink Wrap. put a heavy piece of cord through the roll, and suspend it in your cage. My Birds swing on it, chew on it, sleep in it, and try to convince one another that the other is going the wrong way through it! A colorful plastic slinky suspended at the top of your cage, will entertain them for hours! (One of my Lutinos tried laying eggs in one, but the eggs kept falling out!! (Sheesh ( Lol,) BLONDES!!!) Oh, I didn't mention my Quaker Parrot, Pepper! ("PEPPERMINT", for his love of peppermint candies! He will sneek out of his cage, grab one from the candy dish, and run "HOME" to unwrap and eat his prize! Pepper has an extensive vocabulary, Sings several songs, and combines them into Meddlies ! (JESUS LOVES JINGLE BELLS!") My Feathered family is such fun, and of course, mine are the Smartest in the WORLD! They sit on either side of my Computer desk, when they aren't sitting ON my Computer desk. (I always dump my Printer before I attempt to PRINT! I've found pencils, paper clips, Barbie doll shoes, floppy disks, Sunflower seeds, and numerous unidentifiable chewed objects IN the Printer!!! (Their cage is where they eat, sleep and stay when I am cooking, or won't be at home to supervise their activities!) The guy worrying about his Senagal Parrot pooping on him Cracked me up! I have "Birdie Bibs", cut from old plastic table cloths, or sewn from towels to protect my clothes, and even then, seldom go anywhere without birdie decorations!Lol! Lol, I can't go anywhere without Feathers in my Hair, and dog and Cat hair on my clothes Lol, people with allergies hate me! Nothing Pleases my 10 Cockatiels more than a Shoebox or a shipping box, especially if it is filled with plastic Popcorn! (What a MESS!) dump the plastic, and replace it wth real Popcorn for a nutritious snack your Cockatiels will love!
I usually try and remove the box before it becomes a nest, but most of my Babies have hatched in cardboard cereal boxes, soda cartons, or shoe boxes!
If You have a friend who works in a Warehouse, ask for the empty Cardboard tubes from Shrink Wrap. put a heavy piece of cord through the roll, and suspend it in your cage. My Birds swing on it, chew on it, sleep in it, and try to convince one another that the other is going the wrong way through it!
A colorful plastic slinky suspended at the top of your cage, will entertain them for hours! (One of my Lutinos tried laying eggs in one, but the eggs kept falling out!! (Sheesh ( Lol,) BLONDES!!!)
Oh, I didn’t mention my Quaker Parrot, Pepper! (“PEPPERMINT”, for his love of peppermint candies! He will sneek out of his cage, grab one from the candy dish, and run “HOME” to unwrap and eat his prize!
Pepper has an extensive vocabulary, Sings several songs, and combines them into Meddlies ! (JESUS LOVES JINGLE BELLS!”)
My Feathered family is such fun, and of course, mine are the Smartest in the WORLD!
They sit on either side of my Computer desk, when they aren’t sitting ON my Computer desk. (I always dump my Printer before I attempt to PRINT! I’ve found pencils, paper clips, Barbie doll shoes, floppy disks, Sunflower seeds, and numerous unidentifiable chewed objects IN the Printer!!!
(Their cage is where they eat, sleep and stay when I am cooking, or won’t be at home to supervise their activities!)
The guy worrying about his Senagal Parrot pooping on him Cracked me up!
I have “Birdie Bibs”, cut from old plastic table cloths, or sewn from towels to protect my clothes, and even then, seldom go anywhere without birdie decorations!Lol!
Lol, I can’t go anywhere without Feathers in my Hair, and dog and Cat hair on my clothes Lol, people with allergies hate me!

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