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The easiest treats to train with are sunflower seeds and spray millet. It’s easy to hand your bird a single seed for a job well done or give them a quick bite of a millet stick. Other treats such as peanuts are more time consuming to prepare since you have to break them into small pieces for your bird.

Sunflower seeds, millet and peanut pieces are the most commonly used foods for treats and rewards. But if your bird doesn’t like those, there are ways of finding what your bird does like!

Gather all the known treats that most parrot owners use such as peanuts, millet, sun flower seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, safflower seeds, and even banana chips make some parrots go crazy! Make sure you aren’t using something like cheese or any type of dairy product as a reward for your bird as they are much harder for the bird to digest. So gather all the nuts and seeds that parrots can eat and make a small dish of them all mixed together. Simply set the dish out for your bird to explore whether its outside his cage or inside and come back later to find out what he has eaten and what he hasn’t touched. This will give you a good idea of what your bird likes and what he dislikes.

I’ve never known a bird to not have a favorite treat - even people have favorite treats so make an effort to find our your bird’s preference so you two can work together to make things more fun and move onto some ambitious training sessions!