Best Lovebird treats?

I am trying to work with my bird, which I have had for almost 4 months. She is responding to me a bit (from inside the cage.) She does not get too excited by any of the treats I have tried - I've tried apple slices and shelled sunflower seeds. Any other safe treats that would be very attractive to a Lovebird?

One other question - do you think it's safe to occasionally feed dried mealworms?

As an occasional treat meal worms are fine but from what I read they are mostly used with breeding pairs to stimulate hormones and breeding behavior. You really don't want your bird to be hormonal right now.

For bonding I'd recommend sweet fruits like strawberries...My bird really likes 'em. But he loves apples, oranges too.

Also if your still bonding really anything that will peek his interest is ok in small amounts...to build the bridge between you. I mean not candy but anything natural and healthy generally.

On the Parrot Food, Recipes and Diet board there is a sticky for OK foods and bad foods. http://www.parrotforums.com/parrot-...afe-fresh-foods-toxic-food-lists-sprouts.html

I wouldn't give mealworms, there's a million reasons why, but just know that there are much better treats to use...

When you're training your bird and you want to reward them, you want a treat she can eat very quickly, so RAW Sunflower Seeds work much better than shelled ones...Have you tried just Raw, Unsalted Sunflower Seed Kernels?

The other thing you can do is buy different types of Raw, Unsalted nuts that are not in the shell, such as Pine Nuts, Almonds, Walnuts, Pistachios, etc. (no peanuts) and break them up into little pieces that she can eat quickly. Find the nut she likes most and then use it for big rewards (they usually love Pine Nuts, and you can buy a small bag of raw, unshelled pine nuts in the baking-supply aisle of your grocery store with the other bags of baking nuts)...

Little pieces of fruit, such as different berries may or may not work, it depends on your bird. Any fruit other than citrus fruit or avocado is fine.

The other thing you can do is to try to use any type of unsalted human cracker, like unsalted saltines, unsalted Ritz, etc. and break them up into tiny pieces. They usually like anything that we eat, so as long as it's not horrible for them, like anything salty, very fatty, or full of sugar, then you can break whatever it is up into tiny little pieces and use that as your training rewards. Just look at anything you eat, and if it's not very salty, fatty, or sugary, a little is fine as long as you break it up into tiny reward-pieces, and it's an occasional thing...