A collection of foraging and chewing toys that I have selected as suitable for Caique Parrots. There’s also perching options and other products for Caiques in this section.
Adding Tape Bagel Toy
$24.60Large, thick Birdy Bagels, large vine balls, paper roll and paddle pop sticks (coloured with food safe dye) all hanging on a length of nickel plated chain with a jingly bell. There’s even some shredded crinkly paper inside the vine balls – what is there not to love?! This new bird toy will suit most bird breeds, but is ideal for medium parrots. There’s plenty to chew and explore with a variety of textures.
Measures 35cm tall, 13cm wide and 5cm deep in total and hangs from a nickel plated chain and pear clip.
or 4 payments of $6.15 with Afterpay
Birdie Buffet
$30.20The Birdie Buffet is bursting with enrichment for your medium sized bird! Inside the basket you’ll find vibrantly colored iceblock sticks, loofa, raffia tassel, vine twist, and banana leaf rolls. Your bird will relish all these foraging and chewing options! Hanging below the basket is a double string of chunky wooden blocks, mahogany chips, smooth wooden beads, and a palm leaf flower for your bird to twist, pull, climb, and hang on.
The Birdie Buffet is an awesome chewing toy! It has almost a dozen textures & shapes for birds to chew and explore. The raffia tassel is easy to shred, but the pine blocks are more challenging to tear apart. The variety offered by this toy lets birds problem solve and manipulate to their heart’s content!
The whole toy measures 35 x 15cm and hangs from a large plastic ‘c’ link. While this toy is very similar to the popular ‘Foraging Basket’, it’s quite a bit bigger. Cockatiels and smaller birds can safely use this toy, but it may be a bit big and scary for them at first!
or 4 payments of $7.55 with Afterpay
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Handmade Clay Fridge Magnet - Your Own Custom Magnet
Handmade Clay Fridge Magnet – Your Own Custom Magnet
$20.00Handmade clay designs, made locally, in South East Queensland. These are made with polymer clay and have 2 small, yet very strong magnets attached to the back. These cute, custom magnets are available for cats, dogs, birds and lots of other animals!
You can purchase your own custom request here and send a photo of your pet(s) for the magnets to made in their likeness. Face-on photos are needed for all species except for birds. It’s best to have a side-on photo for birds.These are much larger in size than the earring and pendant jewellery items, that are also available in custom or pre-made designs. The second photo shows a Rainbow Lorikeet magnet compared to a pendant.
These personalised items are made to order and have a wait time of 2-4 weeks. You can check out the range already available in the online store for bird breeds that are already in stock too!
or 4 payments of $5.00 with Afterpay
Birdy Vine Ball Lollipop (Christmas Themed)
$1.70Now making ‘Christmas-themed’ colours in these popular foot toys!
A cute little foot toy that is fun to chew. This toy is handmade by me, with a rolled paper stick and a 2cm vine ball, both are coloured with food safe dyes. Red and green items will be used for these Christmas-themed toys. There is a yellow or orange star bead at the top of the toy and pony bead at the bottom, to hold the vine ball in place. While the beads are fixed, the vine ball can move around a bit.
This toy is great for a foraging treat too, put a dry treat inside the vine ball for your bird to retrieve. They are quite light which makes them suitable for small parrots. First (main) photo shows the recent Christmas ones I’ve made. Other photos of my own birds show the normal version, with variable colours, in use.
Bird Jewellery – Black Headed Caique Pendant
$14.00Handmade birdy jewellery, made locally, in South East Queensland. These are made with polymer clay and have an ‘o’ ring attached, which allows you to add most sizes of chain or cord to hang your new birdy pendant.
Check out the whole category for a huge range of bird breeds in earrings and pendants. Custom designs and other species also available on request.
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Bird Jewellery - White Bellied Caique Pendant
Bird Jewellery – White Bellied Caique Pendant
$14.00Handmade birdy jewellery, made locally, in South East Queensland. These are made with polymer clay and have an ‘o’ ring attached, which allows you to add most sizes of chain or cord to hang your new birdy pendant.
Check out the whole category for a huge range of bird breeds in earrings and pendants. Custom designs and other species also available on request.
Corner Shelf – Powder Coated
$47.00Corner shelves are a great way to utilise space that may be otherwise difficult to make fun! Pop this platform high up in your birds cage as a nice roosting spot or at another level, with foot toys as a play area for your parrot. It can also be handy to place this near to a bolt-on foraging toy to provide access to that level of the cage. Popular with able-bodied and handicapped birds, it provides a nice spot to ‘chill out’.
The bars and sides of the platform are powder-coated. It attaches to the cage with bolts and rectangular ‘washers’ and will fit most cage and aviary bars. See the last 4 photos for an example of the corner shelf set up in a small, travel cage that has horizontal bars on one side and vertical bars on the other. The bolt with the fixed wingnut head screws straight into the hole in the corner shelf, eliminating the need for loose parts on the inside and outside of the cage.
The shelf has a large ‘lip’ on the curved edge. It is pictured with the lip facing downwards, however it can also be positioned the other way, with the lip facing up. This would hold small items like foot toys on the shelf (until your bird throws them over the edge).
I also offer the option of adding a piece of woven seagrass mat onto the platform for a chewable, safe & comfy perching spot for your bird. Replacements can be purchased separately for once the mat gets chewed. I use seagrass mats from Bunnings, that I wash and then soak in F10 veterinary disinfectant. They are thoroughly sun dried then cut to size, using a few small zip ties to stop the cut ends from fraying. The seagrass mat is then attached to the Sundeck with a few more small zip ties.
You can choose to make these seagrass covers yourself, how it’s recommended to wash the mats well before use.
As of 6th December 2018, these have sold out. More stock is due to arrive mid to late December and you can pre-order now to have your order sent as soon as they arrive.
or 4 payments of $11.75 with Afterpay
Foraging Dish Starter Pack
$11.30A large rectangular plastic dish with metal hooks to attach to the bars of the cage. This is a large dish that makes a great foraging tray and is great for birds that don’t like to be down low/on the ground of their cage. It comes with a 500g pack of bird safe foraging substrate to get you started.
Please introduce the concept of foraging for food gradually to your birds. Feel free to contact me to discuss if you need assistance with this.
The rectangular dish measures 23cm wide, 12.5cm deep and is 7cm tall, it is suitable for most breeds of parrot, but particularly small and medium birds. The hook on attachment suits most cage bars.
Birdy Vine Ball Lollipop
$1.70A cute little foot toy that is fun to chew. This toy is handmade by me, with a rolled paper stick and a 2cm vine ball, both are coloured with food safe dyes. There is a butterfly or star bead at the top of the toy and pony bead at the bottom, to hold the vine ball in place. While the beads are fixed, the vine ball can move around a bit.
This toy is great for a foraging treat too, put a dry treat inside the vine ball for your bird to retrieve. They are quite light which makes them suitable for small parrots. I hand make these in a variety of colours, using both star beads and butterfly beads at the top. A random colour will be chosen for you, though you can request preferences in your order notes.
Birdy Bagel Firecracker
$18.00The new Birdy Bagel Firecracker is a toy handmade by me to meet your small parrots’ chewing and preening desires! With a 10cm birdy bagel as the base, a dozen finger traps each held on with a birdy bagel bite and with shredded crinkly paper stuffed in the end of each bagel, it’s got plenty to chew!
The toy measures 20cm wide and 25cm tall. It is fantastic for Budgies through to Indian Ringnecks. It hangs from a stainless steel chain and you can choose a hanging link to suit. Triangle link at the base is nickel plated as I cannot source stainless steel ones.
or 4 payments of $4.50 with Afterpay
Birdy Bagel Firecracker (Christmas-Themed)
$18.00The new Birdy Bagel Firecracker is a toy handmade by me to meet your small parrots’ chewing and preening desires! With a 10cm birdy bagel as the base, a dozen finger traps each held on with a birdy bagel bite and with shredded crinkly paper stuffed in the end of each bagel, it’s got plenty to chew! Now made in Christmas colours! Select from normal (pink and green) or vibrant (blue, red & green).
The toy measures 20cm wide and 25cm tall. It is fantastic for Budgies through to Indian Ringnecks. It hangs from a stainless steel chain and you can choose a hanging link to suit. Triangle link at the base is nickel plated as I cannot source stainless steel ones. All photos show the Christmas themed varieties that I’ve made so far, except for the last image, which shows a customers’ Cockatiel using the normal colour variety of the Firecracker toy.
or 4 payments of $4.50 with Afterpay
Holy Gumballs
$19.70Holy Gumballs! Is a small to medium sized toy with lots of fun things happening! There’s so many colours and textures for your bird to explore and so many places you could hide food treats to encourage foraging behaviour too. With lots of rolled paper sticks poking out of the piece of timber in the middle (these are all coloured with food safe dyes), plastic flowers, wiffle balls, a nickel-plated bell and 2 mini ‘Feather Weight Stars’, Holy Gumballs will satisfy the tactile and visual needs of your bird.
To add a foraging component, you can wedge thin treats like hulled oats or slivered almond pieces in the mini Feather Weight Stars, you can put dry treats inside the wiffle ball or stick pieces of paper straws in the holes (the paper straws can have treats inside too!) and you can even wedge pieces of food into the rolled paper sticks for your bird to retrieve. The last 2 photos show examples of this.
This toy measures roughly 24cm long (including pear clip and bell) and 17cm wide, it suits most small to medium parrots.
or 4 payments of $4.93 with Afterpay
Cane Basket Forager
$18.10The new Cane Basket Forager is a toy handmade by me! An easy toy to introduce to your small parrot who is beginning to forage. Partially fill the basket with some bird-safe foraging substrate and sprinkle some pellets, millet or other treat on top then watch your bird swinging in the basket while retrieving their goodies. You can also put foraging surprises in the large 8cm vine ball at the top.
The toy measures 20cm wide and 25cm tall. It is fantastic for Budgies through to Indian Ringnecks. It hangs from 3mm plastic chain and stainless steel wire. A loop is made in the wire, for you to attach your chosen hanging link from. All plastic ‘C’ links on the toy are closed off with a straw bead for safety. This toy isn’t suitable for large parrots or those who particularly like to chew through plastic.
or 4 payments of $4.53 with Afterpay
Hide n Seek Refill
$8.30A fun pack of safe, shreddable items for your bird to enjoy! This item replaces the goodies that come with the Hide N Seek toy, but they can be used in any refillable toy, or used in your own creation too! The pack comes with a decent handful of timber cubes in a variety of natural and coloured, 2 x vine balls measuring roughly 3 to 4cm in diameter that are normally natural/uncoloured (but sometimes come coloured) and a lovely mix of raffia rope pieces, which are fantastic for preening.
All coloured items are dyed using bird safe food dyes.
This item does not include the blue Hide N Seek toy/holder.
Hide-a-Treat Forager (2 Sizes)
$18.80 – $28.90A simple foraging toy for parrots, newly released from ‘Sweet Feet & Beak’ in a transparent design. Your bird will see the food inside the 3 separate compartments inside and needs to lift the lid to access the goodies.
Available in 2 sizes to suit a wide variety of breeds. I suggest the small for Cockatiels to Indian Ringnecks and the large for Alexandrines to Macaws. It comes in 3 colours: purple, green and blue. A colour will be chosen at random, though you are welcome to request your colour preferences in order notes. I will do my best to accomodate requests.
or 4 payments from $4.70 with Afterpay
Various Yucca Pieces (5)
$4.00A selection of 5 various pieces of Yucca. Yucca is a type of plant and these pieces of dried plant stalk are bird safe, soft and chewable. Parrots, small and large love munching on the soft, fibrous natural material. It’s great to give as a foot toy or thread onto other toys. You can poke a hole with skewer, wire or scissors and hang it in your birds’ cage. By making small holes in the Yucca and pushing dry food treats into it, you can make this a foraging foot toy also.
As a natural item, the pieces do vary and a fair selection will be chosen for you.
The last photo is an example of how food can be stuck in the yucca. This is a different size/style of Yucca to the item – see “5 Yucca Slices” for this style of Yucca piece.
