Featherland ParadiseCreative Foraging Systems, Hanging Pet Feeder, Requires Balance & Coordination

The media could not be loaded.  My conure is having a little trouble opening the hinged squares. He doesn't have the strength to open them, as the hinges are very tight. We've been opening and closing them ourselves to try to loosen them up for him. The slide drawer and the swivel drawer work well for him though.This foraging system is a bit bigger than it appears in the picture, and my conure is tiny compared to it. It easily attaches to the side of the cage, anywhere you want to put it. But I warn you not to put it below perches, or else your bird will mess on it and it's supposed to be a place where the bird eats. There are four boxes in the foraging system, and each box opens different. Two open on hinges, one has to be pulled up from the front and one pulled up from the back. The next box has a slide top to it that slides open and closed. The last box is a swivel, on one edge, so it swivel turns to open. The entire foraging system also turns on a swivel, and there is a plastic perch area next to each box for the bird to stand on, and small pull buttons on top for more leverage for pulling or so the bird can use his/her beak to help pull the boxes open.If the bird figures it out quickly, simply close the boxes, swivel it around, and let him/her start over. I put some favorite dried fruits in the boxes, where my conure can easily see it through the clear glass, and he will spend hours trying to get into it before he finally succeeds, or he gives up and I show him how to open it and he gets his treat. This foraging system, then, does exactly what it is supposed to do with him. He still can't open the hinged boxes by himself yet, but if I prop them open a little bit, he can get his beak under it and pull it up.All in all, it keeps him busy and he seems to enjoy playing with it and trying to get to his favorite treats.UPDATE: My new rescue G2 (cockatoo) absolutely loves this foraging toy. He likes opening the doors and closing them and getting treats out of them. I uploaded a video of him playing with it!

I've waited to review this in the hope of finding something good to say about it. It's a good idea, in general: create a cleanable gadget that you can put treats into and have your bird have to mess around a little--foraging is what they call it--to get the treat. It does require a little bit of thought on the bird's part, and it does relieve the monotony of having everything in a food cup. This does not replace traditional feeding; it's just for treats.The design parameters are that it has to be easy to clean, easy to remove, and the bird has to be able to move the drawers in and out without pulling them out completely. To get the drawer to move without coming out all the way requires, in this case, a plastic glide strip that's cut out of the body of the gadget (the whole foraging box), but there's a small plastic piece, sort of a knob, that's attached to each drawer and fits through the slot in the glide strip, thereby limiting the motion of the drawer. The slot acts as a passageway for the drawer to slide. You screw the knob-like piece into each drawer from the drawer's bottom. A metal bolt goes through the plastic piece and into a female metal piece, a round, threaded nut, that's fitted into the bottom of each drawer. In other words, the tray slides in and out along that slot, with a little piece below the slot that you physically screw into a metal piece that is fitted into the bottom of the drawer.That may sound complicated, but, in principle, it's simple. The very first problem you will notice is that the bolts that fit into the plastic pieces that hold the trays onto the slide are being held by only about one and a half threads. After you get the bolts all the way through the plastic knob, there's only about one and a half threads to fit into the female part: I'm not joking. I could not believe it. Not only am I the son of an engineer, I have done a considerable amount of handy and mechanical work around the home, for decades, and I can assure you that one and a half threads is ludicrously inadequate.It might be that the bolts are too short, and/or that the plastic knobs are too thick, and/or the wall of the gadget itself are too thick, or any combination of those possibilities, or, more likely, it might be a design error. But, sooner or later, with enough play, the bolts are going to come out: one and a half threads aren't enough to hold them, and you can't over-tighten them: if you do, the trays won't move at all. Since the slots are on the bottom, if the top bolts come out, they'll fall into the bottom trays, and if the bottom bolts come out, they'll fall onto the bottom of the cage. In either case, the bird might pick up the bolts, which you don't want to happen, or you might lose the bolt if you don't realize that it's fallen out soon enough.But, let's imagine that this were not a problem, and that the trays fit and slid perfectly. Then we would immediately see the problem that this thing is a huge hassle to clean. Here on our planet, earth, unlike wherever this was designed, we have to clean things regularly to keep out mold, moths and various vermin. So we have to take this thing apart, since we're putting pieces of food into it, and, yes, it must be cleaned. You have to unscrew four different bolts, take the trays out, then put it back together. That's going to shorten the lifetime of the bolt/plastic mating surface, even if it were adequate, which, as I've mentioned, it isn't.The other complaint is that the big plastic nut that holds the entire unit on the cage doesn't tighten enough. At a certain point, it gives a click and snaps back one thread, so you have to "tighten" it just up to where you think it's going to snap back. In other words, it doesn't tighten enough.I'm sorry that I can't think of anything good to say about it, oh, wait: it's a pretty color. There, I said something nice. I apologize for having to give it one star, since Amazon won't allow a negative star rating. This product needs to have been designed by a genius, not a normal person.

I already have one for my Congo African Grey and he loves to forage through it and the area he plays with has held up great. When I got my Timneh I wanted to get him one to see if he would enjoy it as well. The only thing I don’t like about this treasure box of fun is the connection to the cage because it breaks fairly easy. When the back broke on the first one I was very disappointed, but I moved it low in the cage and rig-ragged it to somehow work. I gave it 4 stars because it has withstood my baby which isn’t easy to do.

This was purchased for my two clever cockatiels. To use this toy, I place some bird safe, paper based cat litter to prop up the treats as its quite deep for a cockatiel to stand on top and then put their heads in each compartment. After a few months of use, they are able open up each compartment (except one-explained below) when each one has been left open a fraction as the door compartments are stiff.As they are small birds, they have to stand on top of the carousel, which is okay, except one of the compartments has the hinge on the inside (so it opens away from the toy) and when they walk on top it closes so they can't get into it anymore. There are perch like corners, but the cockatiels are too small to stand on this and get treats from the boxes.I was a bit worried given its size that it would spin and the cockatiels would get stuck, so they don't use this toy when I am not home. However, there has been no incidents and I don't think they are physically able to spin it.Overall this is a well made toy and keeps my cockatiels entertained. However, it is made for bigger birds. I didn't give this 5 stars because although its a great toy, I think there could be some improvements to its construction and its a pain to clean.

chew proof... exactly what he needed.