Coffee Can Enrichment
Coffee Can Enrichment
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!
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.
Notes
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