Bird toys?

FearlessFiona

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Macaws are big ones! Where are the best places to purchase toys that are safe/of quality? I know about Bonka, but there really aren't that many options...Any thoughts on SquawkBox or other subscription boxes?
 
This is the only one other then Bonka I've had experience with. https://www.funtimebirdy.com/product-category/bird-toys/
I used them to get parts in bulk to make toys. I have a CAG. So I don't know how they would hold up to a Mac's beak. I honestly prefer these two because I can make my own. This is cheaper in the long run.
 
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My Safe Bird Store and Parrot Stars both have large toys and ship!
 
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Parrots dont really care if the wood they chew is colored or not, so why not go to local lumber yard and ask for pine wood scraps - for free and make your own toys?
 
We've ordered from Seriously Nutz, The Bird Toy Store (for metal foraging toys), and mybirdstore.com (their actual store is local to us so we usually just go in) in addition to bonka. We haven't had Buddy that long, so I don't have long-term toy insights, particularly since he wasn't strong enough to destroy macaw-sized toys when we got him. We've pondered Squawkbox but have not actually tried it.
 
I've heard good things about Squak Box. Don't know much about it, except that you can choose what size bird you want the toys for.
 
I've heard good things about Squak Box. Don't know much about it, except that you can choose what size bird you want the toys for.
Been getting alot of their adds in email.
I would like to hear first hand if it’s any good.
 
Parrots dont really care if the wood they chew is colored or not, so why not go to local lumber yard and ask for pine wood scraps - for free and make your own toys?
In my area they NO longer give free scraps, gotta buy them. But my 2 chewers Nibbles Senegal, and Lucy OWA are not into wood, they ignore it? But they both love cardboard. I just spent a bout an hour cutting up a "Chewy.com" box for Lucy's cage. Like you said they don't care about color, and the Chewy boxes are really heavy duty. Might work for a macaw?
 
I did Squak Box for about a year. @texsize I liked it. I canceled because the girls have too many toys.
 
Just did my Wed Sr discount visit to Goodwill, which reminded me, that can be a great place to find toys that you can make into parrot toys.
 
I go there often. Just to look around. (Been loosing wtg, don't want to buy new). Never thought about bird toys. Seen lots of baby toys.
 
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I go there often. Just to look around. (Been loosing wtg, don't want to buy new). Never thought about bird toys. Seen lots of baby toys.
I have used toddler toys for years for my parrots. Of course you have to know your parrots likes. And yeah that is a great place for cloths. About 16 hrs ago I lucked out for my son, got his school cloths all brand new. Never know what you'll find.
 
Nameliss is a disassembly expert. I hope I can find things for her.
 
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Gee - you folks all want to spend/waste $$$!!!. Any macaw or larger will destroy/devour any toy in the few seconds of intense combat. Smaller species of parrot I say not, as I only have macaws.
WOOD is the key - either chips, or small/medium sized twigs of any offcuts of most trees/shrubs. The problem only begins when your bird doesn't know what to do with them, This is because they were weaned away from their parents, who were feed artificial food, developed to replace the native nutrients, and their perches were industrial created /harvested/machined wood. I have a bedroom nearly full of childrens toys obtained from a charity shop at low cost. . . and now after 7 years they have not been touched, Everyday I give my macaws twigs, and clean up the mess after - it helps in alot of ways ie agression, interest and connecting to natures DNA wiring into the birds at birth, All birds have it, in various levels, and once "activated" they all do what nature created them for. Incidentally all my indoor/outdoor perches are tree limbs/branches - the size of them determines where they are located, and the supporting structure that the emenate from, Replacing them is my problem every 2-4 years
 
Oops - I do have 2 perches made of indusrial 30mm Dowel, as the location determines where the mess falls!!
 

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