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They're
sooo easy to make!
Budgies
love toys. Period. You should always provide them with toys
to amuse, fling around, beak up and more.
Of
course, you can buy toys. Consider these super offerings:
But!
Did you know you could make them too?
Indeed
you can. If you have some beads, twine, dollar-store items etc.,
you can make some really nifty things indeed. Some words of
warning, however, NEVER use anything coated with Zinc (check your
paperclips!) as that can cause metal poisoning in birdies, and be very
very very careful with things that fray. It can be ingested and
kill your parakeet.
Here
are some resources about that:
Let's
begin with:
Birdie Toy Ideas
Do
you make sandwiches for your kids for school? If so, do you use
wheat bread and cut off the crusts?
Budgies
in general (okay, my flock in specific) love wheat bread! I take
those crusts, stack them up, tie them in the middle with twine, and
then hang it up from their gym for their beaking pleasure.
Want
other ideas? Look
at all the great stuff listed below!
Birdie Toy Parts
Want
to really make sure that leather you're using is untreated, that wood
is bird-safe and more? Visit
Twin Leather
They've
got great resources available!
And
don't forget:
Birdie Gyms
A
birdie gym is simply a "thing" on which your parakeet can play. I
made my own with Tinker Toys; the wooden ones are great to
use. Since I didn't want to spend full price, I did the
eBay route like so:
Here
are some recipes for making your own birdie gym.
And
here are birdie gyms for sale:
It's
so nice to have so many great options for your birdies. Do take
the time to make or buy great toys for parakeet - they'll thank you for
them.
Let's
now digress from one budgie to budgies....of the opposite sex.
Many times, people will think, oh how cute, I can have budgie
babies! If this is you, I urge you really NOT to allow them to
breed unless you're extremely serious about raising the results.
After all, there's no shortage of budgies, and even hand-raised
parakeets cannot be sold profitably. Think about it...if you've
spent weeks and weeks hand-taming baby parakeets, would you want them
to go to possibly clueless buyers?
Be
that as it may, there might be times the inevitable happens.
Thus, let's now turn to:
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