wood... just wood

  oh ditty you poor woman! skittles' rope is still very much intact. he mostly expends his chewing energy on nutshells. i looked up earlier cause he was making this awful cracking noise on the ceiling hook with his beak! i was like    was that your beak?!!! and a nutshell fell down! he's taking the shells and chewing them up and when he gets to the tiny pieces that even he cant break he puts it against the cage or ceiling hook and breaks it against the metal! little snot! he spends much of his energy climbing, hanging, and flapping. its the littler ones that do most of the wood chewing around here. if it was skittles doing it all, i'd be broke in about a week! lol!
the 2x4's around here are pretty cheap, i paid $2.75 for the last 12 foot one i got. untreated of course. so i still use them, its just too hard for the little birds to want anything to do with them. even twiggy, my whittle queen <snicker>, gave up on her 2x4 piece.

but thanks for the thoughts ya'll.