Hi - just wanted to let ya'll know this, this is great. These are great for making foraging toys for hanging in the cage. I double checked on it with an AFA Certified Aviculturist. She said there are not any components in these which are not safe, and that they look ok.
Paper mache boxes from hobby lobby to use to make bird toys for foraging for hanging in the cage. Paper mache is paper, flour and water, as we know; remember when we were kids and we use to make things out of paper mache lol.
Here’s the links for them from hobby lobby: (they come in all different shapes. It’s paper and/or cardboard; UN-marked, UN-colored, UN-labeled) . . . They’re boxes with lids which just lift on and off. They’re the color of a paper lunch bag, basically, or a piece of regular cardboard, like when you think of a cardboard box. You can easily poke a hole in them and put them on stringing material, stuff them, and hang them in the cage.
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/2-1 ... ox-197939/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/2-1 ... ox-222885/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/2-1 ... ox-197921/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/2-3 ... ox-197954/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/3-p ... ox-222893/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/3-1 ... ox-222901/
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/3-1 ... ox-222877/
I don’t think they’re any different than the drink carriers from McDonalds, which I do use to make foraging toys (see this link for image): (you can cut them and fold them, tying them together with jute, when puching holes in them, etc.):
http://justalittlesomethingforyou.blogs ... nalds.html
Or these egg cartons, non colored, non labeled, UN-marked egg cartons, which I also use to make foraging toys with: (see link). I order them here online, 25 cartons for $20.95.
http://www.strombergschickens.com/produ ... gg-selling
I use the drink carriers and egg cartons to make foraging toys for him too.
They are all fine, and my parrot is doing fine
So stop by your local Hobby Lobby store and get some! Just ask where the "Paper Mache" little boxes are . . . . . they are only 99 cent a piece! . When I bought them, I'd asked the store manager if this is something they are going to keep carrying. He said probably, but that you never know if/when Hobby Lobby will have a change. So buy! buy! buy! because you know the old deal, if stores see that an item sells good, and moves good, they will not discontinue them, and keep making and carrying them, and keeping them in stock!