Millet Help, please come

[Paperman12]

Training is becoming very hard for me.... The reason is that my bird that I got in the beginning of June, is scared of millet... I can barely train him... This millet training worked on my other bird but on Little Foot? Nope... What should I do?

[Budgiekin]

Have you provided millet in the cage to Little Foot? Sometimes they need to get acquainted with it on their own terms and by providing it to them for a little while without being attached to your hand so to speak, they may find out how much they actually love millet. Of course, it is also possible that your little sweety will be a budgie who just doesn't eat millet, but I don't know any of those! :p

I realize that won't help your training, at least until you can get your budgie to eat it. Then you can use it in your hand to get Little Foot to step up. In the meantime, have you tried perch training? You can let your budgie out of the cage in a small room, take a short perch and press it gently on the lower abdomen as you say "step up"...

[Paperman12]

o ok thanks

[Budgiekin]

I added another comment to my original response....:p

[Paperman12]

Have you provided millet in the cage to Little Foot? Sometimes they need to get acquainted with it on their own terms and by providing it to them for a little while without being attached to your hand so to speak, they may find out how much they actually love millet. Of course, it is also possible that your little sweety will be a budgie who just doesn't eat millet, but I don't know any of those! :p

I realize that won't help your training, at least until you can get your budgie to eat it. Then you can use it in your hand to get Little Foot to step up. In the meantime, have you tried perch training? You can let your budgie out of the cage in a small room, take a short perch and press it gently on the lower abdomen as you say "step up"...

yes, I've already trained it to step up... but I need to train it more advanced stuff, like not being so afraid of my hands... it's wierd tho, I mean, she steps up on my finger but she is very scared of my hands when I try petting her...