Advice required please

[sydney]

For some reason my birds have decided they want to chew and of course its not the toys there aiming for its the walls tongue and groove and the thick wood edging and its deffinatly not mice thats doing it as ive c aught the birds in the act :/ any tips would be appreciated. Rather them chew perches and toys
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[Gaile]

if it is easier to get to than the toys!!! nmaybe move the perches away from the wall!!!

[stace]

I find it is easy to extinguish unwanted behaviour if you catch it right at the start. Keep removing them from the area immediately, and anything that is attracting them there. Shiny objects, perches, whatever it is.

Once they've discovered a spot and got into the habit, it's harder. Again, remove anything that might be drawing them there. Provide another area with stuff they want to chew, play with. And if all else fails, cover the no-go zone with something - depending on what it is maybe shiny paper or cardboard that their feet can't get purchase on, pin up a sari or cloth to cover a patch of wall. Whatever it takes.

[sydney]

There is nothing there to attract them to it since its on the bottom nearest to the floor theres no reason for them to go there

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[sydney]

Whats a sari?

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[stace]

Mar 7, 2013 9:10:30 GMT sydney said:

Whats a sari?

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Actually, I meant to say 'sarong'. But even that is hot climate wear which you Northern folks might not be familiar with. 

(A sari is like a light Indian cloth wrapped into a dress.) 

[nat]

Its a total pain I know! Mine chewed holes in the ply walls of my last aviary and almost chewed through the wooden uprights so I had to keep adding wood reinforcements to hold the aviay up!
I think they go for the softest easiest thing to make maximum damage. Recently they have destroyed a 3 ft perch every 2 days.

I eased it somewhat by hanging up rabbit willow toys. Those big willow balls were good, the cardboard rabbit chubes (like huge loo rolls) although they need hanging at an angle to stop them trying to nest in them! Basically anything easier to chew then what they are presently chewing. Last year I bought a length of B&Q softwood, about 3 x 1 inch, some threaded rod and made some platform perches using old stainless steel washers and butterfly nuts from old perches. They munched through these pretty quickly :-)

Paper mache toys made from a loo roll and unbleached tissue paper cost little time and money to make and make good munchy toys as well. I reckon some of the wooden toys you get in shops are just too hard to munch so they don't bother with them.

[sydney]

I will try that then maybe hang loads of loo roll etc