The Coollapet Foraging Foot Toy is the larger of Coollapet's two refillable foraging tubes - a clear plastic barrel with capped ends and holes along its side that let one piece of food out at a time.

Key Features

• Clear body, so the bird can see the food inside and knows there is a reason to keep working.
• Side holes release food a piece at a time, turning a handful of nuts into an hour's occupation.
• Both caps pull off for refilling and for washing.
• A foot toy rather than a hanging toy - big enough to be pinned down with one foot and worked at with the beak.
• Large size for bigger conures, African greys, amazons and macaws.

Available in: Also made in a smaller size for budgerigars, cockatiels and lovebirds.

Good To Know

• Fill it from the bird's own daily ration rather than adding extra treats, or foraging just becomes more food.
• Start easy. Leave the caps off until the bird has worked out where the food comes from, then put them back on.
• Discard the tube if the plastic cracks - a cracked edge is sharp, and a large parrot will splinter it given time.
• Wash it and dry it fully between fills. Damp food in a warm bowl or tube grows mould within a day in this climate, and aspergillosis from mouldy food is one of the commonest killers of caged birds.
• 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.