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
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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 seed treats.
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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 feathered pet.
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