This is my favorite toy/swing to make.  It is built on an eight inch marabella plastic hoop, with a stainless steel wire hanger.  Even after all the trimmings have been chewed off, you have a functional and "dishwasher-able" swing.  I take little pieces of four ply  cotton rope,  separate them and then tie the pieces on (double knots) -- eh -- ONE piece at a time.   Cotton toy parts must be cut very short.   Making these little gizmos isn't my most cost effective pastime but  I have earned the undying  gratitude of our Eclectus parents,  d'Artagnan and Constance.  They love cotton rope.  Most toys have pieces that are way too long--too likely to get wrapped around  feet--or tied on too loosely, so they come off in a New York minute.  This is the solution I've found for d'Ar and Connie.  The only hitch is, it takes a lonnng time to put  these together.   My solution: I keep one in the car and work on it when I'm ridin' shotgun and bored with the scenery.     Marc calls it my 12 cents an hour toy.   $10

Knock on wood--I have only had one experience with feather picking.  It was Koko.  (People have observed that all my problem behavior descriptions relate to Koko.  That's not a coincidence. If you own a Quaker, you may be able to relate.)

Ten years ago, Koko started picking  his feathers  for no apparent reason.  Two weeks later,  he stopped, for no apparent reason.  It might have been the aloe vera juice. It might have been the fact that I bathed him 83 times a day, roughly.   I am sure of one thing.  Of all the toys  (many , many toys)  I  bought during that fortnight, a commercial toy  much like this kept him the most focused.  He started shredding the sisal rather than his feathers.   The toy is about  13" tall including chain--9 inches tall from top of cocoanut to bottom of sisal. $10

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