The Coollapet Coco Frog is a coconut shell drilled with openings and hung about with wood and rattan chews, so a bird has to reach through the holes to get at whatever you hide inside.

Key Features

• Several openings around the shell mean the bird has to work out which one the food is behind.
• Coconut shell is dense and fibrous, and holds up to a beak that gets through softer toys in a day.
• Wood blocks, rattan and dyed chews hang from the shell for the birds that would rather chew than forage.
• Fills with nuts, pellets or dried fruit and refills in seconds.
• Hangs from a chain and clip that fits standard cage bars.

Good To Know

• Coconut shell is hard. It is a good chew for a bird with a real beak - an amazon, grey, cockatoo or macaw - and more than a budgie or a cockatiel will get through.
• Rope and woven fibre fray. Trim loose strands as they appear and retire the toy once it goes stringy - a thread wrapped round a toe cuts off the blood supply, and a swallowed one can knot in the gut.
• Chain, quick-links and bells are the usual route to zinc and lead poisoning in parrots. Watch for a bird that strips the coating off metal, and if you ever replace the clip, use stainless steel rather than galvanised hardware from a hardware shop.
• Most parrots are wary of anything new. Leave a new toy beside the cage for a day or two, then hang it at the edge of the cage rather than over a favourite perch.
• A bird that stops playing, sits fluffed on the cage floor or goes quiet is showing the first signs of illness - birds hide sickness until they can no longer manage it. That is an urgent avian vet visit, not a wait-and-see.