For our 41st foraging Friday I will be reviewing the Transparent Hanging Bird Feeder. Like a lot of my rats foraging toys, this one is technically made for parrots, but it works just as well for rats. To use this toy is very simple - all you have to do is thread the metal skewer through the hole in the plate and the ball halves, then fill the ball before closing it. Next you can place some fruit on the rest of the metal skewer on top and then hang up the toy from the top of your cage.
As for how your rats will use this toy once you fill it and then hang it up in order to get to the food inside the ball they will need to maneuver small bites out from the holes in the ball. Because of the fruit plate you can technically use smaller treats in the ball, but i'd suggest mainly using larger treats like fresh food because this will be harder for them to remove in large amounts and so will promote more foraging fun. If you place food on the top part of the metal skewer then the rats will be able to get to that by balancing on their back legs and grabbing it wit their mouth and front paws. Either way they will have to work at getting to the food and that makes this a great foraging toy for the larger fresh foods which often can't be used in other foraging toys. Cleaning wise the this toy is super easy to put together and take apart and its entirely plastic other than the metal skewer. So because of that it's easy to pop it apart and then wash it with warm water and soap, then dry it and reassemble it and use it again. This is ideal especially because this foraging toy is so suitable to fresh foods like fruits and veggies, since these tend to either be sticky or wet and so having a foraging toy that is easy to clean is really necessary for consistent use. Overall I was very happy with this foraging toy and my rats all enjoyed using it. I love that the hanging ball is the perfect size to hold fresh food and that the slots in the ball prevent the rats from stashing too much fresh food and force them to share. I also like that the fruit plate prevents food from falling to the cage floor even when the rats nibble it small enough to fall out of the hanging ball slots. I found this foraging toy to be very useful because of its ability to hold fresh food and promote the rats to gradually eat small bits of it and I will continue to use it whenever I give the rats large treats to eat inside the cage. Link to this foraging toy: https://amzn.to/3crGEAy Video showcasing this foraging toy:
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