Coollapet Barbell with Wooden Tyre Foot Toy for Birds

The Coollapet Barbell with Wooden Tyre is a short wooden bar with a grooved hardwood disc at each end and loose beads between them, sized to be picked up in one foot and chewed.

Key Features

• Foot toys are the ones a bird holds and chews while standing on one leg - a different activity from anything that hangs.
• Grooved discs give a beak somewhere obvious to start, so the toy gets used rather than ignored.
• Loose beads spin and slide along the bar, which keeps a bird coming back to it.
• Light enough for a cockatiel or a conure to lift and carry.
• Nothing to fit to the cage - it goes on the cage floor, a play stand or a table.

Good To Know

• The colours are dye on wood. Expect them to fade, and to stain a wet beak and the cage tray - that is the dye, not blood.
• Match the toy to the bird. Hardware built for a macaw will trap a budgie's foot, and a toy built for a budgie is destroyed in minutes by a large parrot, leaving pieces small enough to swallow.
• Check the toy over every few days. Retire it once parts are chewed through, frayed or splintered - worn toys are where beaks and toes get caught.
• A bird that stops playing, sits fluffed on the cage floor or goes quiet is showing the first signs of illness - birds hide sickness until they can no longer manage it. That is an urgent avian vet visit, not a wait-and-see.