Coffee Can Enrichment

Coffee Can Enrichment

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Behaviors

Rooting, Climbing, Perching

Animals

Livestock, Marmosets

Type

Environmental

Why They Love It

This is a noise maker!  Inside the coffee can is a cow bell so livestock, include horses, sheep, pigs etc can make nose while rooting the coffee can!

Sanitation

Can use multiple times with proper sanitation and upkeep.

Disclaimer: If long chains are not allowed in your facility due to potential risks, please cover full chain with pvc pipe or shorten chain to 1-2 links.

Recipe

Coffee Can Enrichment

This innovative enrichment toy is for marmoset and livestock. Inside the coffee can is a cow bell so livestock, include horses, sheep, pigs etc can make nose while rooting the coffee can! It’s the perfect environmental enrichment for your animals!
Species: Farm Animals, Non-Human Primates
Type: Environmental, Tactile
Keyword: rooting
Yield: 1
Cost: under 10$

Equipment

  • 1  Empty Coffee can
  • 1 Plastic Chain
  • 2 Snap Clips or Carabiners
  • 1 Cow Bell 

Instructions

  • Take an empty coffee can, and make sure it survives the washer.
  • Cut an "X" into the bottom of the can.
  • Pull any length of plastic or metal chain through the "X".
  • Attach a carabiner to the inside of the can, at the bottom of the can. You can leave extra length to attach a snap hook and a cow bell or other toy.
  • Attach another carabiner or snap hook at the end of the chain, and attach it to the caging.

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