This article will give you tips on how to make parrot toys for beginners. If you have doubts about making your own parrots, have not worries as it is not difficult to do so. Also think of the money you can save. If you own a parrot, you know how fast they go through the parrot toys. If you need to keep on buying the toys as replacement, you are going to spend quite a large sum of money. So, instead of doing that, I will cover some tips of how to make parrot toys for beginners.
First thing first, you must make parrot toys that are suitable for your parrots. Size is one consideration. Big birds tend to have stronger beaks so you need to make parrot toys that are stronger and more resistant. Also, do consider the size of your parrot cage. Take care not to making a parrot that is too small for the cage as you will wasting your time and efforts in doing so.
Here are four different materials for you to make parrot toys
Rope is quite critical for making parrot toys. They are useful material to hang stuff and you will probably need a few of these to create some interesting parrot toys. In the market, there are several different models of rope that you can buy of which solid braided rope and twisted rope are the most popular. Ensure that whichever model you choose, the materials are 100% cotton as it is safe for parrots when they incidentally digest it. Any alternatives are not considered bird safe. When making rope parrot toys, make sure all the frayed ends are trimmed so that your bird does not get caught.
Parrots like to poke and peak at wood so a wood based parrot toy is most ideal for your pet. When selecting wooden materials to make your parrot toys, ensure that you buy bird safe products. This is because your parrots may ingest some the wood that it is chewing on. The important point is never to buy painted or lacquered wood parts (certain paints/lacquers contain zinc and other harmful chemicals/additives) as the chemicals can be deadly to your birds.
If you don’t want to buy any materials, paper is a good choice for your as they can be found in your home. In fact, using paper to make parrot toys is the most easy way for beginners. First , you will need paper towel rolls. They are the flexible to work with. Moving on, punch a hole into the slides so that they can be string together with a rope. Once that is done, you can do a lot of things with it including hanging lots of interesting materials between the paper towels to create variety for your parrot toys.
The final materials I recommend for making parrot toys is leather. Leather is not as common as the other materials so you might need to shop around and find a place that has the right type of leather. There are various widths and thickness of vegetable tanned leather strips. Be sure to purchase what is most suitable for your bird and the size of the hole that is drilled. The important thing is to ensure the leather has not been treated with any chemicals or dyes to prevent poisoning if you parrot accidentally swollen it.
These are all I have for you. Now, it is your turn to go and have fun making parrot toys.
