Creative Foraging SystemsPush & Pull Pet Bird Feeder, Keeps Birds Busy

I use this for my birds main food bowl. They eat pellets along with various fruits and veggies. The item works great for pellets. I cannot say my birds have the toy all the way figured out though as they do not move the blue separators but rather jiggle the toy until something falls down :), or bang the toy against the side of the cage. Either way it keeps them working for their food aka preoccupied.I only use pellets and dried veg for this toy and have not ran across too much issue with the food being stuck or problems cleaning. Great item for the purchase price and holds up well with my destructive birbs.

Your bird must be adept at using foraging toys to master this. My DYH can and does use it, but it takes a lot more work to get her food than the other foraging toys, so it gets used last. Also, the passages between the chambers is quite small, so small pellets or seeds are really all one can use. It's difficult to take apart, so I'd definitely not use anything that would spoil or cake the inside.The major plus to this toy is that it's very time consuming. If you have a bird that will focus on one toy and not bore quickly when instant gratification isn't achieved, then this is a toy for you. It's complex so it requires your bird to think, and that is a great thing. If the bird can get into it it can spend a lot of time using it. It's well-make and very durable. It will be part of our toy rotation for a very long time.

My indian ringnecks are quite intrigued by this toy, although they still haven't quite figured it out. It's also difficult to get things the right size for the holes... I started with some chunks of dried fruit, but had to cut the pieces quite small (3-4mm cubes) to make sure they would go through. I found that coconut worked best because other fruits would get too sticky and clump together and not fall through. Sunflower seeds can work, but they tend to also get lodged at weird angles and you need to really shake it to get some to fall through, even with the holes aligned.From a construction standpoint, the middle sliding lever is quite stubborn to move, and it is also difficult to screw and unscrew the top to refill. Perhaps this is a good thing for my birds who have managed to unscrew/unwind other toys, but I'm always worried at how much pressure I need to open or close it and worry that I might break the toy.I will be keeping this in rotation although I do think there are ways that this design could be improved.

While the holes in this foraging toy make finding a suitable treat to fill it a pain, I can attest that budgies are smart enough to figure out that in order to get more seeds they need to pull the blue handles to make more treats (currently regular seed in mine) come out from the top.While it is made for larger sized parrots in mind, budgies are smart enough to use it too.Update: buy a bag of “A Taste of Australia” at My Safe Bird Store for suitable treats to fill it.

I was really excited to get this and when it arrived I was very suprised at how small it is. I have a male eclectus and not only are the holes to small for much to pass through the head opening to eat the food is to small for his head. It now just sits in his cage unused because if I was going to rely on this for my bird to eat..... He would starve. It should be marketed as a small parrot feeder.... My bird is considered a medium parrot.

It works as a foraging toy regardless, but my conure immediately learned that shaking the toy = treats. So she's not getting much of the brain training that I hoped she would

My conure took quite a while to get over the usual foreign-object fear, as expected. She poked her head in to the bottom chamber a couple of times, emptied it out, then gave up. She progressed, learned to start pulling on the planks to cause more (nutri berry crumbs) to fall down. I don't think she's actually learned to pull planks one direction or another... She just shakes it, empties the whole thing out!The return window is way past closed so I might dismantle it, try to make it more difficult for her to empty out. Maybe thicken up the planks so they can't be slid in or out as easily, or make the dividers in between each chamber taller. Even just when filling the toy up, with the plank openings closed off on a given side, you will always end up with treats falling all the way down...The review sounds a lot more negative than I meant it to, I appreciate the fact that it has not taken ANY damage, has not gotten gnawed on like other cheaper toys. I do just have a tiny 70g Conure but she is capable of destroying cheap, imported toys.

The pull out slides jammed constantly, and no food was ever obtained from inside. The material was very cheap. It was not easy for my bird to maneuver due to the width of the column being quite large (larger than his toes could fit over), perhaps a Macaw sized parrot would prefer it. Overall I was very disappointed because I thought it would actually be a very fun and engaging toy for my parrot but he never touched it again after 5 minutes.