by Pajarita » Sun May 13, 2018 11:27 am
I agree with Liz. I never quite understood why people say that giving them what they want is bad for them. It makes no sense to me and I've never observed this in my birds. Most of my birds are chewing up a storm right now so I oblige them and give them different things like cardboard boxes, rolled up magazines, yucca medallions or kabobs, chewie toys, branches and basically whatever I can find that they can chew on because it is exactly as Liz says: as long as they have something to chew, they are entertained... and I don't know if it's the fact that they are not obsessing over finding something to chew or the fact that it distracts them and/or focuses their energy but it seems to calm them, in a way.