Did I buy the wrong toys

Natural materials tend to be best, the wood should be fine so long as the dyes are non-toxic (if made for birds or babies they should be if from responsible sources) but I'd suggest watching the ropes for fraying (loops can catch toes & fluff being ingested can cause crop impaction) and if the metal parts get undone remove any sharp edges.
Personally I don't like using cotton rope too much (I removed the fluffy ends of a couple of rope perches I bought so my girls couldn't chew the fibres and replaces them with knots of parrot safe leather & paper twine instead) but do know some class it as a safe material and interesting texture to their birds.
I've made some toys of my own when I found my girls loved shredding the paper I put down where they play (originally to protect the furniture from poop but it became a toy) using unprinted newspaper or unbleached craft paper and paper or natural jute twine.

Others will probably have more in-depth advise to offer, I'm under a year in to parrot ownership and have no experience with kakarikis (from your other posts) so mine is just general things I learnt online.
 
A.A.A. said:
Natural materials tend to be best, the wood should be fine so long as the dyes are non-toxic (if made for birds or babies they should be if from responsible sources) but I'd suggest watching the ropes for fraying (loops can catch toes & fluff being ingested can cause crop impaction) and if the metal parts get undone remove any sharp edges.
Personally I don't like using cotton rope too much (I removed the fluffy ends of a couple of rope perches I bought so my girls couldn't chew the fibres and replaces them with knots of parrot safe leather & paper twine instead) but do know some class it as a safe material and interesting texture to their birds.
I've made some toys of my own when I found my girls loved shredding the paper I put down where they play (originally to protect the furniture from poop but it became a toy) using unprinted newspaper or unbleached craft paper and paper or natural jute twine.

Others will probably have more in-depth advise to offer, I'm under a year in to parrot ownership and have no experience with kakarikis (from your other posts) so mine is just general things I learnt online.
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Thank you very much for your input :) I notice my kakariki and budgies like to bite and pull on they threaded bits would you recommend I cut them really short almost into the knot incase they come off
 
Perhaps they are trying to make nesting material nothing wrong with them chewing on it and pulling it to bits as A.A.A. said just check it daily for safety reasons
 
I always cut tassels short or off. One of my hens, Squeak, got herself tangled up in one when she was younger and I had a very, very scary time rescuing her from it.

She was a devil for getting into scrapes. Not long after the tassel incident, I had to disentangle her from a coriander plant. Good grief.
 
Lozhinge said:
I always cut tassels short or off. One of my hens, Squeak, got herself tangled up in one when she was younger and I had a very, very scary time rescuing her from it.

She was a devil for getting into scrapes. Not long after the tassel incident, I had to disentangle her from a coriander plant. Good grief.
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Thank you i think i will cut them just to be on the safe side
 
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