Are You Having Trouble Getting Your Parrot To Take Treats From You During Training Sessions?

Picking the best treat to reward your parrot with, is a crucial part of your training success. Even a starving parrot won't eat certain things. For example cockatiels that have note been taught how to eat pellets, have no idea that they are food, and if given the option between starving to death, and eating pellets right in their food bowl, will choose death... it's pretty common. I bring this up, because of my recent troubles with training Ricky, my Parrotlet, sometimes he wants to work for food and other times he doesn't. But one things for sure, is that he doesn't like the millet I've been offering to him lately, and it's hurting his training routine. So what's the solution... Try EVERYTHING... I need to go buy 4-5 types of different millet sprays to see what he likes most, I need to try lots of different seeds... I need to try shelled vs. unshelled seeds etc. And recently I've been seeing him pick nuts out of pieces of bread I've been giving him, so I should get those same nuts, and try to use them as treats. I bring this up, because lots of people give up way to early, because their bird's won't work for treats. This is from one of two reasons, A, there bird doesn't like the treat you're giving them, or B, your bird has become bored with the training, and going through the effort just isn't worth the treat anymore. Be sure to be perceptive of which problem your bird's having, and correct it with either more variety of treats, until you find something he likes... or VERY short, one to two repetition training sessions to keep the training short, active and fun for both you and the bird. Your sure to end up with a much more energetic bird, that'll fall in love with his training sessions in no time!