Please post any homemade little playsets or things you made for your bird!(Chickens count)! I have a male peach-faced lovebird and I will post his creation soon!!!!
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I like to make foraging toys for my birds. In this instance, I'll talk about my parrots (chickens are easier by comparison!). Wild parrots spend something like 70%+ of their day foraging for food, which usually involves chewing, seeking, and even coming up with creative solutions for getting that bit of delicious treat out of a nook. In comparison, our parrots sit in our houses all day like lazy lumps and get their food given to them in a bowl. No wonder they get bored!
Anyhow, here's some cheap and easy things I do:
I use natural coffee filters, and take two of them. Wrap a few bits of pellet, or seed, or a small treat inside, and twist it up tightly like a peppermint candy wrapper. My pionus parrots love to work and chew through the paper coffee filters to get to the treat. Each one takes them about 10 minutes or less, but then they keep going back to investigate the wrapper after they are done and it keeps them busy.
I take either fresh or dry corn husks from corn that I know wasn't treated with herbicides or pesticides and either weave them together into mats or (more often) use some sisal rope to bind a bunch together, sort of like a giant cigar. Before I bind them, I hide bits of food and treats in between the husk layers. Then wrap it all tight so that my parrots have to chew it apart to get at the goodies. They love this and will work at it for hours! I imagine you could do this with the coffee filters too if you wrapped a bunch of them.