The Coollapet Foraging Cup with Beads is a small clear cup that hangs in the cage, which you fill with treats so the bird has to lean in past a curtain of beads and acrylic to reach them.

Key Features

• Clear, so the bird can see there is something in it - which is how you get a bird foraging in the first place.
• Beads and acrylic pieces across the opening turn a simple cup into a task.
• Takes nuts, pellets, dried fruit or seed, and refills in seconds.
• Hangs on a clip rather than bolting through the bars, so it moves around the cage easily.
• Small enough for a cockatiel or conure cage.

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 cup half uncovered the first few times so the bird understands what it is for, then let the beads fall back across it.
• 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.
• Discard it if the plastic cracks - a cracked edge is sharp.
• 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.