Foraging Boxes, also masking tape

[saroj12]

thank you, that is very helpful!
Can't have unsupervised string or rope around the caiques so these long skewers look like they would be a good subsitute for me
Mother Pluckin' Bird Toys - Home of the ATOM

how odd! the url doesn't change no matter where you go in the site! Anyways these are 10" long ss skewers...also has them for the large strong guys...

 

[piercesdesigns]

According to websites I have researched Birdie Bagels are made with food grade adhesives.

 

[Hankmacaw]

Call me paranoid (and I am with all of the health issues I've had with my birds), but I wouldn't use anything with adhesives. I know that pressed board (OCB) and thicker cardboard are made by using high temperatures and pressure with glue. I don't know what the glue has in it, so I don't use it. I do know for sure that plywood and OCB are not safe for birds.

ML

 

[saroj12]

thank you ML.
I got some little boxes made of thin Kraft natural paper cardboard.
LOL I thought Kraft is a paper manufacturer and I was going to call them for info but the only Kraft I see is a food company.

 

[GG.]

Kraft paper is actually a type of paper

Kraft paper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[lamagdalena]

oooh those are so much cheaper than buying the foraging cardboard thingys. let me know how they work out saroj!

 

[Kimba]

Call me paranoid (and I am with all of the health issues I've had with my birds), but I wouldn't use anything with adhesives. I know that pressed board (OCB) and thicker cardboard are made by using high temperatures and pressure with glue. I don't know what the glue has in it, so I don't use it. I do know for sure that plywood and OCB are not safe for birds.

ML

I'm right there with ya! Most glue has zinc. and most white or yellow glues use PVA the toxic crap used to make PVC, and glue for cardboard tubes uses more than one kind of glue.

 

[Kimba]

Kraft paper is actually a type of paper

Kraft paper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

it's also the brown art paper you see in craft stores, cheap and good to use

 

[ilikebirds]

couple of questions...
i also have read adhesives are no good, but what about those pinatas? what do they use to stick the papaer on with? you know the ones for birds...neo loves them...

how do you introduce a foraging box without it becoming a nest site? eva thinks any box will do, so i dont know how to give her one.

 

[piercesdesigns]

couple of questions...
i also have read adhesives are no good, but what about those pinatas? what do they use to stick the papaer on with? you know the ones for birds...neo loves them...

how do you introduce a foraging box without it becoming a nest site? eva thinks any box will do, so i dont know how to give her one.

Pinatas should be made with flour and water paste.

 

[Danita]

omg LOL

thank you ML.
I got some little boxes made of thin Kraft natural paper cardboard.
LOL I thought Kraft is a paper manufacturer and I was going to call them for info but the only Kraft I see is a food company.