colored paper safety?

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I'm in the market for some crinkle-cut or other shredded paper to incorporate for foraging. Does anyone know what to look for in colored paper for bird safety? Lots of commercial toys and parts incorporate colored paper or cardboard, but I'm not sure what criteria to look for aside from buying from someone who has already done that screening.

[kaylayuh]

I'm not sure what to look for, but some Ebay bird stores I've seen have been selling the cardboard rings. I haven't seen paper yet.

[patdbunny]

I generally use child safe non toxic items as a general rule for bird safe. So, I'd go with child safe construction paper.

Then again, I feed my bird fish so I'm not sure if I'm to be trusted.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

LOL Roz. It's so easy to become paranoid...

[patdbunny]

After 20 years, you stop living in a bubble. You develop a general sense of looking out for their safety, but you step out of hothouse orchid mode.

Unfortunately, it always seems like the thing you'd never consider a hazard is what ends up doing them in.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

I've spent the last two days home "on vacation" closeted in with the birds, smelling. Not stinking, mind you, smelling.

The new fence boards have been stained and the outside of the patio door refinished. Fortunately, with the central circulation turned off, the windows on the opposite side of house open, and the exhaust fans running everywhere, the odor doesn't seem to penetrate far into the house at all. I can smell it when I'm standing next to the door, but it doesn't get to the bedroom corridor, let alone the bird room, and I've been keeping that door closed as well. It smells like bird in here.

It has pretty much made me insane, convincing myself that I really DON'T smell a thing and that I don't need to box them up and go for a ride. Meanwhile Scotty is probably going to be the first Cape to perish from aluminum poisoning... he chews on his cage ALL the time.