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Seed games for your feathered pets !
Introduction
Most pet birds simply adore eating seeds. Therefore,
when you play some interesting games with your feathered
pets, that can be not only exciting and entertaining,
but also a very positive appetite booster.
Flying
seed kites!
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To
play this game what you will need is a few paper
kites. You can paste some tasty seeds at the edges
of each kite. First make sure that your pet bird
watches you doing this.
Your
pets are very observant. They may not find chasing
paper kites very interesting. However, having
the seeds attached to the kite can really make
chasing a kite real fun and exciting from a bird's
point of view.
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While
making the kite you can add a lot of false seed
like images all over the kite. That can be really
confusing! For your bird. And then, once again
you must remember to fly the kite really low if
it's a small bird and not used to flying a lot.
Of
course, you can play this game indoors too, if
your pet has never travelled out of the house
beyond the windowsill.
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Seed Dens!
This can be a game played on the ground. What you can
do is carve out hollows in tree trunks or search for some
natural ones. Then, you can hide some really, tempting
and tasty fruits and seeds within the hollows.
Once
you do that, you must cover the hollow with some bright,
coloured cloth and attach a small, tinkling bell at
each place. Set your birds free to explore these tiny,
tree caves where food is hidden.
Floating
Seed Boats
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To
make this game, what you will need is at least
5 or 6 brightly coloured battery powered boats
that your children normally play with. To each
one of them, you can attach a small packet of
seeds and leave them afloat in the water.
When
you see you pet bird approaching any one of them,
simply accelerate the speed. Watch your birds
tilt their heads in surprise as they go chasing
after the boats.
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Seed
Hoppers!
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To
make a seed hopper, what you need to do is to
take many small bouncing, rubber balls. To each
one of them, you can attach a small packet of
seeds. Throw one ball at a time in the air and
let your bird get really puzzled trying to track
the ball and discover the packet of seeds.
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Singing
Seeds
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You
can take many small tinkling bells ( at least
15 -20) and attach them to the lids of plastic
bottle tops or even some small plastic bottles.
Now all you have to do is to attach small seeds,
which could be of different types, peanuts with
shells, almonds with shells and such other tempting
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You can play this game indoors in your bathroom tub
or outdoors in a small pond or swimming pool. If you
play the game indoors, what you need to do is to fill
the bath tub with water. Then place all the bottles,
bottle tops etc with the tinkling bells attached to
them in the water. Because the objects are made of plastic,
they will all float in water while the bells will give
a chiming sound. Now, place small seeds on top of each
lid or bottle. You can use rice paste to stick the seed
to the bottle top.
Let
your pet birds come swooping in and have a really,
good time picking up the seeds.
Conclusion
Birds simply adore loud sounds, colour and lots of action.
Games with bright and colourful, fast, moving objects
can really make any afternoon out with your bird a real
pleasure trip for your featherd pet.
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