Quaker and talking

Can anyone help me out on the time frame it takes for a 11 week old Quaker to learn to talk?.... I have had it since Thanksgiving.

All birds are individuals, there's no guarantee that any parrot will be a talker but with Quakers it is very likely. Some quakers say their first words as young as six weeks, others never have a lot to say. My youngest quaker is eighteen weeks old, he said his first words at seven and a half weeks, he says words and phrases and talks every day. Wilson has an advantage in language skills, two of his flock mates are adult quakers with extensive vocabularies, simply put, they never stop talking, it's pretty safe to assume it's easier to teach a baby quaker to talk if you also happen to be a quaker.

For your little guy, I think you'll have great success if you choose a few words and short phrases and repeat them often. They seem to learn more quickly if they can associate words with action, for instance, "Hello, how are you?" when you approach. "Peek-A-Boo" and,"Tickle tickle", are easy ones if you make a game of them. "Yum-Yum, Good Good, Thank You, You're welcome!" can easily be taught at meal time. "Nite, Nite, Good Night, Sweet Dreams", are all easiy to teach at bedtime. One of my quakers tells me, "Nite, Nite, Precious", and, "I love you so much", when I cover his cage. The same bird has also taught my baby quaker to say, "You are a quaker parrot!". Repetition and a little patience and he'll be talking before you know it. Have fun.

Agreeing with above...

I bet you'll love your darling so much you'll almost forget about talking. I've heard that so much from people here.

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There's no predicting them. The Rb has learned obscure things while refusing to mimic things he hears 50 times a day... like... "I love you". Won't say it. Stinker.

Every parrot is different. Salty talks but not lot. He says;
Helllo
Hi Geri
Hi Daddy
Good boy
What are you doing
Salty ( about 6 different ways)
3 or 4 different laughs
Sings "Little Brown Jug" - the first part of the chorus
A couple of different whistles

And thats it. He's 1-1/2 years old. Now, no one can deny he is a smart parrot ( chek out his videos ) but he is not much of a talker. Do we care? Heck no ! If you really need your guy to taalk, try one of those repeating boxes, some parrots respond to that. My old YNA would lern stuff in a day with those. But he had no idea what he was saying. Letting your bird live around the family, in day to day life, he might pick up stuff and know what he is saying.

cnyguy said:

Talk to your Quaker parrot a lot-- not just when you're trying to teach him words. The more talking that a parrot hears, the more likely that parrot will want to talk back. As Allee said, it helps to use words and phrases in context and to repeat them often, and enthusiastically. There's no guarantee that your QP will talk, but keep working at it; some parrots are late bloomers and don't start talking until they're older. And as GaleriaGila noted, parrots won't necessarily repeat what we might want them to say. They have their own ideas and will often choose to say something we'd rather they didn't. My QP Ralph has learned a lot of words and knows what they mean, but like Salty the Amazon, Ralph isn't that talkative and doesn't use his words that often.

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Agree...people have said 'tiels don't talk too much..my BB wont shut up now..seems like he is coming out with different words/phrases every week..but he is with me ALOT...on my shoulder and I'm always talking to him and I can tell he listens...comes right up to my face and watches me..amazing little fluff ball that he is


Jim

Well stated already, they are all different and there's no "Timeframe" we can give you. I got my boy at 9 weeks old and he started talking in a week. He is now 7 months old and talks all day long, mimics sounds, and laughs. I leave the radio on for him so he can sing and dance.

I will say that if you pick one word or one phrase like "I love you" or "Pretty bird" and say it over and over to him all day long, day after day, it will probably speed up the process a bit. In my experience once they learn to speak their first word or phrase it then becomes much easier, like they figure out how to speak and then they just have to hear and learn new words.

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We don't know how old Bacca was when we rescued her and the previous owners didn't know she could talk (she did make a zipper noise at times). She certainly knew how to say "Bye Bye" as she would say if I walked by her cage (the back door was right there). She'll say "Good Bird" and "Bacca" and periodically pick up other things. My wife says to her "give me a kiss" all the time so she says that and "Beak" to me (we bump noses and say that). One day she was on my shoulder while I was on the phone and she starts going "OK, OK, OK..." Great. I could train her to fill in for me on conference calls.

She loves sounds though. In addition to the zipper noise, she'll make the sound of shoes squeaking on our floor, the door hinge squeak, the sound my baby grandson crying, and passing airplanes. One day I was watching a video of a guy shooting a machine gun and she immediately started making the machine gun noise.

She gets a bed time story every night ("Good Night Sammy"). It has alliterative words like "Kickety Kick" that she reads along with. Sometimes if we aren't paying attention and she wants to go to bed she'll stand at the top of the stairs going "Kickety Kick."