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by rose_2783
Thu May 07, 2009 11:58 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: teaching irn to talk experiment
Replies: 4
Views: 1810

IRN's don't show how smart they are until they are ready. They will learn how to talk but not talk until they are ready.
by rose_2783
Thu May 07, 2009 11:51 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: He Speaks!
Replies: 8
Views: 3589

IRN's are on the list of the Ten best talking birds in the world. I haven't looked up the revised list in a while, but I thought they were between seven and ten on the list.
by rose_2783
Thu May 07, 2009 11:47 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: Help Needed
Replies: 2
Views: 1456

The way I always would introduce the two birds is to let them see and hear each other for a few days. Then let them out together on a play stand that has not been either one of theirs, a new environment. Next if they get along outside of the cage, let them play on a cage neither one has been in befo...
by rose_2783
Thu May 07, 2009 11:31 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: do you know what my IRN means by doing this?
Replies: 6
Views: 2181

The birds call to me and then wait for a response, they want to know where I am. If I reply, so do they. Also the biting threat is what breeders and trainers are calling the bluffing stage. I found an artical about the bluffing stage. http://www.indianringneck.com I don't try and pet them if they do...
by rose_2783
Thu May 07, 2009 11:10 am
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: baby bobbing up and down
Replies: 6
Views: 4810

Your White and Blue baby could be a Pallid, (AKA Lacewing). If she is a year old, she could be starting to get sexually mature. I have tame breeder females that pin their eyes, lift their tail up and coo. They are in a trance like state and they allow me to pick them up with out them moving. One fem...
by rose_2783
Tue May 05, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: IRNs Behavior & Taming
Topic: baby bobbing up and down
Replies: 6
Views: 4810

I use a syringe with a teat cannula on the end (a small plastic tip) to hand feed my babies. They slow down or stop the eating for a day or two until they fly for the first time. They too bob their heads with excitement. Also when they go to fly, the bobbing gets longer before they take off to fly. ...