- Hey, everybody, Jamieleigh here from BirdTricks,
here with my galah, Bondi,
and we're here to talk to you today
about our five-toy bundles.
Now, these are our foraging toy bundles.
And what foraging means is it gives your bird
an opportunity to forage for something interesting,
just as it would do in the mild,
in the mild, (laughing) in the wild.
So it teaches your bird to engage its brain,
become more self-confident, and more independent,
and learn how to self-entertain
while maybe you're away at work,
out at a birthday party, or just having a normal life.
This makes it so that your bird isn't so dependent on you,
but learns how to self-entertain
in its enclosure, aviary, or cage.
Now, in case some of you aren't sure
which size to order for our five-toy bundles,
we have a few different options.
Now, size doesn't necessarily matter when it comes to birds.
If they can destroy it and play with it or on it,
it's definitely great for them.
So I'm gonna show you some examples of some of our sizes,
but also, if you wanna check
the product description in our images,
we do have a size chart to kind of get you started.
Now, an example of our small foraging toy
would be this little guy here.
As you can see, inside, you can actually,
your bird can break these pieces apart and get in there.
Now, these are nice and soft for the little beaks.
They bend up very, very easily.
You can actually hide some millet or nuts
or pellets or whatever your bird wants to go and get,
you can hide in there.
And you'll see that these gradually get larger.
Now, Bondi is not considered a small bird,
but this would be easy for her to beak and destroy.
So this could be a great foot toy
for the medium to large birds.
You don't necessarily have to order
medium toys for a medium bird, if that makes sense.
I often like to bundle all the sizes together
on one quick link and put it in the cage
for my birds to go at and play with.
So I'm gonna show you some more examples.
(Jamieleigh kissing)
Hey, can you turn back around
so nobody has to stare at your bum?
(laughing) All right.
So this is one of our medium foraging toys.
You can see it's more a Bondi size for sure.
What do you think, girly, what do you think, girly?
So this is more of a medium-sized toy.
It has a lot of fun stuff going on.
Again, our toys are only dyed with veggie dyes,
which means you take beets or kale
or anything that makes a color
and you use that to dye everything.
And we aren't using artificial dyes.
This is an example of one of our large toys.
Now, coconut is much harder for the birds
to break apart and destroy,
so it can last a little bit longer,
which is why we make it part of our large one.
However, you can see the small birds could
obviously still have a little fun in this.
Now, not only are you getting our three foraging toys
in your five-toy mystery bundle,
but we're also throwing in a bird kebab.
This is a line I absolutely love
because all size beaks can destroy this.
This is fairly soft wood.
So it's some of my birds' favorite toys.
I'll show you some proof of that.
I went to grab some from my aviaries
and this is pretty much all I could find.
And this one was the most intact.
(Jamieleigh laughing)
So as you can see, they do come in different sizes,
again, so a little bit of variety there.
These are amazing for teaching your bird
to use its beak and destroy things.
Again, this is what it looks like a little bit more intact.
So we do include these in our foraging line.
And the way to make these foraging is
you can fit things in between each piece of wood
or you can even nick out little pieces
that it's really soft to do and put in pellets, seeds,
or nuts, or whatever your bird likes to go for.
Also, we are going to be throwing in
our exclusive toy into our five-toy bundles.
Now, I promise it's prettier than this.
This is another one I had to salvage from my own aviaries
and my birds had already gotten a hold of it.
So it is prettier.
I will definitely put a photo over this,
(laughing) but this is our exclusive toy
you won't find anywhere else.
We're really excited about it.
And thank you guys for helping us name it.
You guys named it The Scarecrow.
It does usually look like a scarecrow.
It just, it just doesn't after my birds
have had it for a few seconds.
Okay, so the big difference between our five-toy bundles
and our three-toy bundles is our five-toy bundles
rotate every three months.
So month one, you'll get a certain rotation of toys.
Month two, you'll get a certain rotation.
Month three, you'll get a certain rotation.
And then it will repeat all over again.
So some of the toys and some of the sizes
that I wanted to show you here in comparison
because sometimes when you guys are looking
at product images, you don't really fully understand.
This is an example of one of the small sizes.
So Bondi is about 300 grams.
That's about three sun conures.
So if that kind of puts it in perspective,
based on her size, that's about how big this is.
And again, small size works for medium-sized birds.
I would say she's a medium-sized bird.
This would be the medium size of the same toy.
So just so you guys can see a little size difference there.
And again, in comparison to Bondi.
And she's even preferring the small one.
(Bondi chirping)
Come over here.
I wanna show them.
So a size comparison with Bondi.
Again, remember that the small toys can be used
as foot toys for the medium to large bird.
So it's not just for small birds.
Also, the medium and large toys can be used
pretty much as play gyms for your smaller birds
and can go a lot further as far as lasting
a little while longer.
So there's a lot of variety and I'm an advocate for giving
all sizes of toys to all sizes of birds,
just for the variety in it and the fun.
Here's another example of a small toy
versus medium.
Some more small toy options
that I will show you.
Again, all of these are foraging toys
because this is our foraging toy bundle.
This one has a really cute little crown, so to speak,
on it that you can hide things in.
Also, once your bird has made a little dent in this
or even before, you can hide things inside the coconut.
This one's adorable.
So all of these, and remember,
these are made of really lightweight things
where you can just pull these back yourself
and hide things inside.
This makes it so that the small birds aren't discouraged
from trying to forage, that they can actually do it too.
Here's one more of our little monsters that's really fun.
Again, this is a preening toy,
but preening toys are really, really great for birds
teaching them self-care and preening.
And I know my doves love textures like this.
And so do my cockatoos. (kissing)
All right, so you've seen some examples
of some of the smaller toys,
now here are some examples of the medium toys.
So this would be a medium-sized toy,
and this would be our large.
So you can see there's quite a size difference here.
This is one of my birds' favorite textures.
I know that my macaws absolutely love destroying this,
but also, my toucan loves this toy, believe it or not,
because there's little stringy things
in between the wood here that he likes
to grab a hold of and pull out.
It's almost kind of like confetti-type
of what it kind of reminds me of.
This is a medium toy.
And this is one of my birds' favorites as well.
It reminds me of "Jenga."
And I do have a large, so this is a medium,
this is a large so you guys can see again,
that size difference.
This is about as tall as you.
This is about as tall as you, cutie, ooh.
So this is a large toy with a medium bird.
Medium toy with a medium bird.
Again, some more options in this line that you'll see
in some of the product description images,
you can see which toys are coming which month
because I realized that a lot of you
aren't into the mysteries, mystery toy bundles,
which is our three-toy bundle where you don't know
what you're getting each month.
This one is more predictable
and you know what's coming each and every month.
So if your bird is prone to liking a certain toy
and you wanna see it constantly repeated,
this is the toy line for you.
Now, some of our large toys,
this is Bondi's absolute favorite.
You can fit nuts or wedge things in and all around here,
especially down here.
This is a great, great toy.
And as they destroy it,
they just tend to take little pieces out.
It's almost like missing teeth.
And you can fill it in with other things.
You could even ball up paper
and stuff the paper to put in here.
This is another large size toy.
This is called our Pineapple.
So again, I showed you one earlier.
This is a large, this is a medium,
just so you guys can see the size differences.
These are amazing foraging toys.
And my conures, my sun conures, absolutely love these.
They're easy to forage with.
They're so versatile, and they last a lot longer,
I found, than some of the wooden toys.
So even as they tend to destroy this,
there's many layers to adding the foraging.
So these are great no matter what size you get
for conure-type parrots.
Now, one of my absolute favorites is our Birdie Bouquet.
This is an example of the small one.
(laughing) It's adorable, and this is the large one.
So there's a lot of fun variety.
And I hope you guys are understanding the size differences.
But keep in mind, your bird may have different preferences.
Maybe your bird likes to get up
on the really big toys and have fun with it.
And maybe you wanna see it last a little bit longer.
I'm an advocate, again, I've said it before,
but I like providing all size toys for my birds
just to offer them more and more variety each time.
So don't be discouraged,
especially when getting foraging toys,
ask us for tips and tricks to get
your bird interested in toys.
The faster they destroy them, the healthier,
that is of a tip for you and your bird.
So that is a really good sign that your bird is healthy,
is active, is engaging with what you've put
in his environment and keeping healthy.
So the faster the birds destroy the toys, the better.
I know it's really hard on the budget,
but it does mean that your bird
is using and engaging his mind,
which is exactly what we want from our pet parrots.
So I do wanna mention with our exclusive toy,
even though it's not fully intact
'cause I stole it from my bird's aviary
after they already had a go at it,
it may not look like a foraging toy at first.
But this is just simply woven things.
You can see, my birds kind of started
to destroy it right here and started to pull it up.
This is really easy to do to pull up these woven bits
and hide stuff under there.
So you can see that I easily just pulled that new part up.
You could just slide something under there,
and then, push it down.
Or you could even leave it up if your bird
needs something a little bit easier.
All of these toys are easily manipulated.
So they aren't super hardcore in there
where your bird just can't get through.
These are meant to be destroyed.
They're meant to encourage your bird
that he's doing a good job,
that he's making progress on this,
that he is destructive and destroying things,
and that's how birds like to feel
when they are picking things apart.
So we try to encourage this and make it interesting
and entertaining for you to find ways
to encourage your bird to play with toys.
So if you notice that your bird's not touching them,
try to find ways to entice them.
Maybe you can feed it's evening meal through a toy.
Maybe you can use targeting to overcome
the fear of something new.
There's tons of different varieties
of techniques and ways to get your bird
and encourage your bird to play with toys.
So we highly, highly encourage it
because it's super important
for your bird's overall health and wellbeing.
If you guys are receiving our foraging toy bundles of five,
I would love for you to tag us on social media,
whether it's Instagram, Facebook,
YouTube, Twitter, and the like,
we'd love to see people, and happy customers,
and happy birds using our products.
So please make sure that you tag us
and we will be sure to share it.
Be sure to let us know which toy is your bird's favorite
and which bundle you like best.
We love hearing feedback
and we'd love to know what you guys think.
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