5 EASY DIY BIRD TOYS USING JUST PAPER 

hehe I'm glad!

So are mine!

So are mine

Mine as well

If he’s feather plucking he needs better toys and you need to take him out of his cage more

I hold him lots (most of the day while I work) he’s TERRIFIED of new toys which is why I’m thinking the paper will be better. He’s had a toy in his cage for months and is finally warming up to it in the last week or so.

​@@mrs.knecro7044 My plucker is obsessed with her drip water bottle & salt lick & sometimes her cuttlefish that I've soaked in salt water too. Some pluckers like ropes they can preen, mine occasionality does this too, but whenever she's feeling stressed, it's her salt lick then the ball in the drip water bottle that seems to comfort her & kinda act like a "toy" to her. Drip water bottle is outside the cage with only the dripper bit inside it. If yours likes paper shredding though I say go for it with that! Make as many paper toys as you can :) Mine won't shred, she actually abuses her cagemate if he dares shred anything in the cage (really funny to watch actually, if I hang a cord with paper threaded back & forwards through it, he'll enjoy shredding it, she'll respond by screaming at him not to & if he continues, she'll approach him & nip him if needbe to make him stop. Meanwhile he'll grab the toy & intentionally swing it at her to try to hit her if she approaches him. Note the cage door in my set up is permanently open, so either of them can leave the cage & climb onto the roof or any of the perches on the outside of the cage if there's any serious fight between the pair of them, they're not trapped in there together)

That’s smart!

I made carrot juice and used it as paint- and there was pulp left over so I ate it Treat for me and my bird I guess

@@Huggywuggyseekscaryblue ye I guess so. Lol

@@brigbrainbob998 thank you

would it go bad or harbour bacteria?

thank you so much! 💕

yes! i'll try to think of more!

You can change the design in a way that you can hide little treats aswell :)

thanks so much! im glad you like them!

haha having a long scissor helps!

@@FlyingFids uhm i made one of the toys but my birds we're scared of them i also left it inside their cage for a few days but they wont go down so i removed it

Hi, Most birds chew on paper and cardboard with absolutely no harmful effects. For many birds, paper is a fun and inexpensive item with which to play.

You def shouldn’t use water colours, because that has a lot of chemicals, not even humans can xD

Oh yea thanks but I didn’t actually use water colours while making these I was kinda just curious

Well, first you can look on RU-vid. Second cover the fruits with the seeds(not too much just a little.) They’ll start eating fruits in no time.

I just simply buy colored paper. To me it's safer and easier.😉

Hi, most birds chew on paper and cardboard with absolutely no harmful effects. For many birds, paper is a fun and inexpensive item with which to play.

They need them! Every bird needs one, they have calcium in them.

Give it some time, some birds tame very fast and some don't tame at all! Also, make sure your giving your bird veggies and fruits for a good diet, never just give them seeds. Also, the wider the cage the better!😊

That’s perfectly normal. Mine did that too when I first got him. He needs time to get used to you.

Try cardboard instead of paper & layers of it if 1 is too easy. Some of these toys should work with cut up cardboard boxes

Yes!

I was wondering the same thing. I wondering if I could use a thicker construction paper that already had color.

I'm not sure that she's going to answer this question though cuz she hasn't answered yours. 🫤 But that's on the standable so many people's comments make it hard to get to everybody.

For the most part colour doesn't really matter but it depends on the bird, some birds really like certain colours and hate others. I'm just skipping this step personally.

My birds fav colours are green, yellow, orange

What does your bird eat in the wild? If it eats colourful foods & has colourful mates, it will likely love colourful toys. Birds can see UV too, so even more colour variety than humans. Depends on the species & then personal preference of the bird whether it will like colourful stuff or not though, if it's a colourful bird, with a colourful diet, it will usually want colourful toys

@@mehere8038 Oh I see, Thank you so much for answering my questing! :)

It’s for every bird! You can use it for budgies too!

@@Luv.Gracee wow really thanks for telling me l appreciate it thank u

@@melissarueb9326 yw :)

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I’m pretty sure you can bring them!

Touch training :))

@@mehere8038 Hi I have got him or her taking a treat out of my fingers but I can’t get near the bird with the stick yet. Do I just keep trying to get it to step on my hand? It won’t have anything to do with the stick and clicker yet. Thanks for your help

​@@carolanne7755 I'd still do the stick first personally, but I'm coming from a place of having a rescue bird with severe "learned helplessness". I suggest looking that up & making sure there's no potential yours may be developing that too, hopefully it's not, but best to be sure, cause I can tell you mine is a HUGE mess emotionally because of it. She arrived doing anything I wanted, then once back in her cage would just rock & pluck & cry for hours. Thing about the stick is it's teaching the bird it has a choice & if it chooses to do what you're asking, it gets rewarded for it, but if it chooses not to, that's ok too & that makes for much better & faster training further down the track. I'd get a variety of sticks, chopsticks of different colours, pencils of different colours etc etc & put them on or in the cage & leave them there for at least a few days & let your bird play with & choose which one it likes & then use that. Clickers tend to be harder with some birds, but if your bird is already comfortably taking treats from your hand, then just click as s/he does so, while also giving verbal praise & it will very quickly associate the clicker noise with positives. Hold the clicker well away to start with, under stuff to muffle the sound if needbe due to fear of the noise. You don't need to clicker train, but it can be useful, so if your bird is fully comfortable with the taking the treat from your hand, you may as well get it comfortable with the clicker while doing so, as that's a really easy "trick" it's learning through training & any "trick" that's learnt means you & your bird have added a clear communication into your relationship & that's a really good thing & will benefit your relationship into the future. If your bird's not truly comfortable taking the treat from your hand, don't add the clicker until it is. I found the clicker training really useful with one of mine who refused to step up with BOTH feet, doing only one for 5 months of daily training! (this is my learned helplessness emotional mess one). I clicker trained her & then I tried the hand on the end of the perch to "shimmy" onto instead of stepping onto (which is much easier for them when learning step up) & when I FINALLY got her to do her second foot on that, I could clicker & reward, but verbal praise & treats couldn't work in that setting, cause she was only doing the second foot for a split second before putting it back onto the perch, so rewards or praise were reinforcing her stepping back onto the perch due to timing to get them to her. Next I put my hand between 2 perches & had her step across it to get to the second perch & treat & she eventually did, but VERY fast, but every so often she'd put both feet onto my hand in the process & those would get a click & big treat, while 1 foot just got a small treat. That precision of the clicker can be useful. I don't use the clicker all the time, but I do enough that they know what it is & that it means they did something good (which was funny when I had a timer that had a similar sound & both my birds reacted to it as if it was a clicker & wanted a treat lol). So I'd just keep doing the treats from your hand & add verbal reinforcement to that as well & clicker if your bird's really comfortable & let your bird get comfortable with sticks & choose one it likes, then start holding the stick in/near your hand while treating & then move onto touch the stick before the treat's available. I personally have lorikeets, so the easiest treat is sweet liquids in a syringe, so mine had the syringe & stick next to each other & they could grab & lick at the syringe, but liquid only came out after they'd touch the stick. After a bit of licking of the treat, it would stop again & they'd have to touch the stick to turn it back on. They figured it out VERY quickly :)) I had to cover most of my stick with a different coloured tape, so as to indicate only the end part was touchable, cause I had 2 birds grabbing at different ends of it, which wasn't very helpful!

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