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gedoena
Flutterer
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 114
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
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In the latest Foster & Smith catalog, they recommend wrapping food in paper, or covering food dishes with paper, to give birds an extra chance to "forage". I thought this may help stimulate Dewey, and possibly help the budgies with their weight issues.
Do you think this is a good idea? Is regular white paper safe for them to be chewing on?
Of course they all have chewed on a corner of someone's homework at one point or another  but I don't want to be giving them it purposefully if it isn't safe.
marisa |
Thursday September 21, 2006 12:50 am |
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fruitynutbird
Fledgeling
Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 226
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Ordinary newspaper with black ink is safe. I've heard it's best to avoid any colored printing. Newspaper printers had to change to using safe, black ink because too many people use the newspaper to wrap up their food and groceries and people also eat breakfast while handling the newspaper with their fingers. |
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Thursday September 21, 2006 9:41 am |
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gedoena
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Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 114
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
Thanks! |
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Thursday September 21, 2006 11:22 am |
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Cathy
Kamikaze pilot
Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 6673
Location: Omaha, NE USA |
Encouraging & providing birds more opportunity to forage is really being pushed in the parrot world a lot recently & I think it's great!
I did notice some where that some one wrapped birthday & Christmas present treats in holiday wrapping paper, & I have to wonder about the safety of the ink used in them, I think I'd avoid that.
Here's another thread about ways to encourage foraging
http://www.fluffies.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=3386
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Thursday September 21, 2006 11:55 am |
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gedoena
Flutterer
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 114
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
quote:
Originally posted by Cathy
Encouraging & providing birds more opportunity to forage is really being pushed in the parrot world a lot recently & I think it's great!
I did notice some where that some one wrapped birthday & Christmas present treats in holiday wrapping paper, & I have to wonder about the safety of the ink used in them, I think I'd avoid that.
Here's another thread about ways to encourage foraging
http://www.fluffies.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=3386
Oh, great, thanks!
marisa |
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Thursday September 21, 2006 4:22 pm |
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meg832
Fledgeling
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Posts: 365
Location: Ohio |
Just today a friend handed me a print out from The Non-Toxic Times Newsletter (Vol. 7, No, 11) The article on dioxins said,"...At the very least, keep clorine-bleached paper products out of the kitchen where they might come in contact with food." The address at the bottom of the page is http://www.seventhgeneration.c.....;issue=... |
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Saturday September 23, 2006 2:10 am |
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gedoena
Flutterer
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 114
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
Max just got around to trying the newspaper thing a few days ago. He wrapped the seeds pretty loosely in the paper for the first time and Dewey saw him doing it. Apparently he had a fun time figuring it out and crawling in to grab seeds, then crawling back out again to eat them.
Then Max put some seeds in the terrifying Snuggle Hut. Dewey went on a mission to find them in there and pull them out too. I'm not sure I'm delighted by the idea of seed husks etc in the Snuggle Hut. But I guess if he can get used to it...
I'm not sure why Max decided to try this while I wasn't home...and for once he didn't make a little video with the digital camera! :/ oh well.
Now we need to try some more of the ideas in the DIY forum for wrapping foods and see if Dewey will catch on to the idea of playing with stuff!
marisa |
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Thursday October 19, 2006 9:02 am |
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