The Coollapet Coconut Merry Go Round is a wooden barrel hung on a chain with dyed wood chips, rings and beads radiating out from it.
Key Features
- The pieces radiate on spokes, so the whole toy turns as the bird pulls at one side - that is where the name comes from.
- Dozens of small chews on a single hanger, so a bird is never stuck on the same piece.
- Mixed shapes: rings, chips, blocks and beads, in several thicknesses.
- 24 x 11 cm, which suits a medium cage.
- Hangs from a chain and clip that fits standard cage bars.
Available in: Coollapet also lists a larger Merry Go Round built on a coconut shell rather than a wooden barrel.
Good To Know
- 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.
- The colours are dye on wood. Expect them to fade, and to stain a wet beak and the cage tray - that is the dye, not blood.
- Match the toy to the bird. Hardware built for a macaw will trap a budgie's foot, and a toy built for a budgie is destroyed in minutes by a large parrot, leaving pieces small enough to swallow.
- Check the toy over every few days. Retire it once parts are chewed through, frayed or splintered - worn toys are where beaks and toes get caught.
- 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.