I keep my parrot in my room along with two budgies (separate cages) and was wondering if it possible to teach him to talk if there are other birds in the room?
He is already really tame with me so if not, I can always spend time with him in another room.
Can I teach my IRN to talk with budgies in the room?
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ellieelectrons
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Re: Can I teach my IRN to talk with budgies in the room?
I have never tried to teach my guys to talk... but somehow they have managed it. Charlie picked it up even though he is housed with Janey. I'm not sure that Janey has learned any new speech since Charlie arrived though.
Ellie.
Ellie.
Re: Can I teach my IRN to talk with budgies in the room?
Well I just talk to him all the time, I say hello a lot hoping that eventually he will pick it up but I was wondering if the budgies would distract him for speaking out.
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Re: Can I teach my IRN to talk with budgies in the room?
Here is what I have learnt about parrots learning to talk. They tend to learn phrases that you say that there is some kind of emotional connection too. For example, my Charlie has learnt to say, "Gimme a kiss", he then makes a kissing sound and then follows it up with, "another one?".
They learn speech in context. For example, I knew a guy with two macaws and he says that every time someone new walks in the room, the bird says, "Who's that?". I've also heard of a group of aviary birds that learnt to talk and when there was a disruption in the aviary, one of the birds could be heard trying to calm down the other birds by saying, "Sssh... it's ok". Both of our birds have learnt to say "Janey! Janey!" because (we had Janey first) and they seem to think it's the term meaning "come here". Also, when Charlie wants Janey to go somewhere with him, he will say "C'mon" like I do to them when I'm trying to coax them to do something.
They can also learn to say something in response to a prompt. For example, my husband was trying to teach Janey to say "watcha doin'"... whilst he was trying to teach her, first he'd say, "Hey Janey" followed by the "watcha doin"... and so now, if you say to either bird "Hey Janey"... they'll follow it up with a "wotcha doin"... had we known this was going to happen we probably would have come up with a better stem than "Hey Janey!"
So I guess some takeaways from this are:
1. try using some positive interaction with the bird in conjunction with what you want them to say (eg. "Gimme a kiss")
2. try using a stem and an answer (eg. Janey, what's 2 + 2? Four - in this case you are trying to get her to learn the word four.)
3. try to create a predictable context around the phrase (eg. c'mon)
If you're really serious you could also check out this DVD on teaching your parrot to talk:
http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store-dvds.html
Good luck.
Ellie.
They learn speech in context. For example, I knew a guy with two macaws and he says that every time someone new walks in the room, the bird says, "Who's that?". I've also heard of a group of aviary birds that learnt to talk and when there was a disruption in the aviary, one of the birds could be heard trying to calm down the other birds by saying, "Sssh... it's ok". Both of our birds have learnt to say "Janey! Janey!" because (we had Janey first) and they seem to think it's the term meaning "come here". Also, when Charlie wants Janey to go somewhere with him, he will say "C'mon" like I do to them when I'm trying to coax them to do something.
They can also learn to say something in response to a prompt. For example, my husband was trying to teach Janey to say "watcha doin'"... whilst he was trying to teach her, first he'd say, "Hey Janey" followed by the "watcha doin"... and so now, if you say to either bird "Hey Janey"... they'll follow it up with a "wotcha doin"... had we known this was going to happen we probably would have come up with a better stem than "Hey Janey!"
So I guess some takeaways from this are:
1. try using some positive interaction with the bird in conjunction with what you want them to say (eg. "Gimme a kiss")
2. try using a stem and an answer (eg. Janey, what's 2 + 2? Four - in this case you are trying to get her to learn the word four.)
3. try to create a predictable context around the phrase (eg. c'mon)
If you're really serious you could also check out this DVD on teaching your parrot to talk:
http://www.goodbirdinc.com/parrot-store-dvds.html
Good luck.
Ellie.
