When do Quakers start talking?

So I believe Freya is about one year old and been with me for about a month. She has never showin any signs of talking what age do they normally start talking or is she past the age and not going to be a talker. I talk to her a lot and it appears she's listening as she stretches her neck and starts chuffing.

Hahah, whenever they want to!

Do keep in mind a month is still a very short time. Freya might be shy about talking in front of you. Maybe she's just a quiet girl - humans are the same with overtalkative folks and the silent but deadly folks. Give it time and just accept her for who she is, however she grows up to be

could take days, could take years. there is no answer to your question that is satisfying really lol

Yeah, no way to know when or if your Quaker will talk...and if she's a female Quaker, then chances aren't great that she will..My female Quaker does say about 10 words (she's just about 4 years old now), but only I can understand what she's saying, lol...Not to say that a female Quaker can't or won't ever speak or speak clearly, but chances are less than a male...But not all males speak at all either...It's all up the individual bird....

I have an adult female quaker rescue of unknown age, but DNA by me female. She talks a lot. She can say, hi or hello, awww little baby bird, good bird, good girl , what a good girl, pretty pretty pretty birdie, come here, to cuss word phrases ( she arrived Knowi g) she speaks very clear and crisp. Took about a month of being home before she started talking a lot. Neptune started talking at ten weeks, abd he talks a lot and loudly, but not always perfectly clearly, he knows do many phrases I won't write them all down. But he also squaks and screams a d just loves to make noise all day long, so I might hear What are you doing 200 times or more a day.

So do I think your wonderful quaker will talk , yes! Probably at least a few words. Like everyone said, a month getting to know your baby isn't long at all. And you might be happy she isn't noisy!!!! My visitors complain how loud , and never shuts up Neptune can be. In fact they say they will never have a parrot if they can be that loud.

But I hope you will love your quaker even if she never speaks.
Can you talk about her cage set up a date location, toys, food, perches, time out of the cage with you, abd daily routine? We can see if their are things that might make her happier, or safer and comfortable, or if she has been checked out by a vet? She may be perfectly happy abd comfortable, and healthy and just a quiet girl too . Or just needs more time. What is her back story?
And never to old to start talking my GCC started talking at five years!!!!

I agree with all that has been said so far. charmedbyekkie nailed it, “hahah, whenever they want to.” Quakers can speak as early as six weeks but that’s no indication they will. My female quaker speaks clearly and often and one of my males has a huge vocabulary but doesn’t use it too often. Keep talking to your quaker and give him or her time.

OMG I just typed out a massive response and it got wiped before I posted lol. So all start again. Thanks for the replies guys of course I don't mind if she talks or not. A bit more info on her then, her cage is in the living room where I spend all my time when not at work I work 8:30 till 2ish. Her routine is pretty much bed time at 8pm covered cage, uncovered at 8am when I get ready for work tho don't particularly wake her up I just say morning and leave her at that. Once am home I do some housework and get food then let her out here's were I would like to improve currently I have her out as much as I can no less than 2 hours usually more however she is glued to me when out so I can't do anything but focus on her as she's into my clothes neck watch the cloth I use to clean up mess aslo am a gamer so would love to have her out when am chilling but she wants to kill my controller so I have to put her away as she has no indepent play like on top of her cage. Food wise I give her bed in the evening when she's out she has parrot seed mix which I was given with her she also gets a couple nutri berries a day. As for cage layout I'll post a pic. I got her from a friend's family who had her all her life so a good background plus I was given everything so her set up never changed. They did have a snuggle hut in her cage but I removed ASAP. Hope some of this is OK. I did have her out while I was typing it on my phone but I had to put her away as she kept biting the phone and pecking the screen lol. I hate always having to put her away but unless am 100% focused on her I just can't she's soooo demanding lol.

Looks like a great cage and set up.
I would add lots if veggies to her diet, I offer mine in a casserole dish all laid out so they can see everything and pick at it, plus us string enough for them to perch on the dish while they dig through the veggies. I feed romaine lettuce, peas, carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, radish, hot chili peppers (a favorite!) Bell peppers seeds and all, cooked sweet potatoes, rarely a bit of corn, green beans, squash, a but if boiled egg or scrambled egg. There is more but you can find safe veggies list on internet.

Just saw my phone auto corrected veg to bed lol so yeah she gets all that veg. Think she's still working out what she likes. Does everything else sound OK. Is her cage good enough too.

Great advise above!

Not a quaker but I have a rescue ringneck and he speaks ONLY when he wants to lol. He can say his name and peek a boo but its not very distinctive most of the time. Sometimes if he’s in a mood, he’ll be clear as the sky! I have only heard him speak clearly like maybe twice? haha. He does imitate a lot of sounds, which I think he picked up in his previous home.

It also depends on how social your quaker is! Shy birdies take quite some time to adjust - initially, Max would only talk if NO ONE was looking at him and he would immediately stop if someone looked at him. Present day, he doesn’t shut up until I respond to him LOL.

Take your time and hope for the best!

All I can tell you is that if I put my birds back in their cages every time they disrupted what I was doing or tried to eat my phone or playstation controller, they would NEVER be out, lol..That's just how they are my friend...My 4 guys are out ANY TIME I'm at home, and for the most part they are with me, on me, or following me, but that's just how it is..Now it does help if you have a large, portable play-stand or play-gym that you can move to whatever room you're in, just put newspaper under it and move it from room to room, and put her on it...And if she flies back to you and you're too busy to have her on you, then just keep putting her back on the play-stand until she understands that this is "her territory" just like her cage is. Eventually she'll take the playstand or play gym as being "hers" as long as it has lots of toys and things for her to chew on it.

She needs to stay just as busy all the time as you are, she has the intelligence of a 3-4 year-old child. So just putting her away in her cage when you're home and doing something else isn't the right way to go about this at all. Again, you're busy playing video games and can't have her on you because she's gets after the controller, but she needs to be busy with something too, and she's not, and that's why she's going after the controller...And a Quaker needs to be out of their cage for more than 2 hours a day, so again, either buy her or even better build her a play-stand out of PVC pipes and fittings, hang tons of toys, things to shred, foraging activities, etc. from it, so she can be out of the cage in the same room with you whenever you're home, but also so she has something fun to do just like you're having fun gaming...They aren't AT ALL like dogs, they are more like young human toddlers, they have the brain of them, they use logic and reason, and they also are "flock" animals, meaning that she wants/needs to be with her "flock" whenever it is home, and that's you...

I was reading this again and something I forgot to say to the OP...

I don't know if you've ever seen a colony of wild Quaker Parrots (they live all over the US in very large colonies, the largest colonies being in New York, New Jersey, in the New England states, and then down in Florida and surrounding southern states), but if you've never seen a "Quaker colony", I suggest that you do a Google search for "Quaker colony nests" and take a look at just how busy they are naturally and what they do all day long...They live in huge colonies of hundreds of birds, but where they differ from other wild parrots is that they don't build "nests", they build rows and rows of interconnected Town-Houses!!! Quaker homes look like little condominiums all connected together, and this is also why they are considered an "Invasive Species" and were made illegal in a lot of states when they first started appearing in colonies back in the 1960's (originally due to large shipments of Quaker parrots going to pet shops getting loose at airports, specifically at JFK in NYC)...Since then most states have over-turned their laws against owning pet Quakers, as they are actually more "urban" parrots and most large colonies live in cities and build their colony town-houses up in the power-lines, phone-lines, etc. But the point is that Quaker Parrots in the wild are extremely busy birds, working hours and hours a day on building and maintaining their colony houses...

Now all wild parrots, regardless of their species or where they are from naturally, spend most of their day, every single day, foraging for enough food to meet their daily nutritional needs...They all fly between 8-10 miles every single day in the wild to find enough food for the day to meet their needs...In captivity, pet parrots have a huge bowl of nutrient-dense food 3 steps away from them all day long, every day...And with the brain of a 3-4 year-old human toddler, pet birds obviously become extremely bored very quickly.

***So it's our job as their owners to actually provide them with two things that every pet parrot needs in order to be psychologically/mentally healthy and happy, thus physically happy: #1 A "Flock" for them to be a part of, and #2 a "Job" for them to do every single day to keep them occupied and from becoming bored[B/]...and with boredom comes them being very "Destructive"...So, the reason your Quaker ALWAYS wants to be on you/with you when you're at home is because you're his only "Flock", and just having him always be in the same room with you when you're at home is half the battle, so that he can always feel like he's with "his flock"...It's one thing if you're busy doing something that could be dangerous for him to be around, like cleaning or building/fixing something in your home, etc. But activities like playing video games are actually perfect times for you to spend time with your bird, meaning that you're in the same room with your bird and he does not have to be locked inside of his cage...The only piece of the puzzle you're missing is a "Job" for him to do while you're doing what you like to do and you're keeping busy...He must also have a "job" to do or something to do that will keep him busy and keep his brain working, so that he won't want to be destructive and chew on your Playstation controllers...And trust me, I know, they love the rubber knobs on Playstation controllers...

***Something that I noticed about my Quaker Parrot when I first brought her home as an 10 week-old baby was that her beak is constantly going, all the time, all day long...So Quakers are usually habitual "chewers" and "shredders"...So the best type of "Job" that you can give them to do is something that involves chewing and shredding. And this kind of "job" will also keep him from chewing apart your belongings, lol...So something that I've been suggesting at least trying because it has worked wonders for my own Quaker and that she absolutely LOVES to do is to work for hours at a time on "Shredders"..."Shredders" are available at any Petco, and a package of 30 feet of it costs only $4.99! So it's definitely worth trying, if your Quaker doesn't like it then you're only out $5...and chances are that he'll love it and it will keep him occupied for hours and hours...It's basically just 30 feet of digestible paper that is very thick and braided/woven together into a long streamer. It's extremely tough because it's woven/braided and difficult for them to chew apart. And all you do is take it and wrap their cage up in, weaving it in and out of the bars, all around their cage, twisting it around the bars of the cage, etc. Or you can wrap it around their play-stands, etc. I wrap up their cages in it, weaving it all throughout the cage bars all over the cage, and then I just leave their cage door open...And they spend hours working from both inside and on top of their cages, trying to get it unwrapped and off of their cages...And my Quaker literally attacks it every time I wrap her cage in a new package of it...She goes at that stuff like she's on a mission, and as long as she's in the same room as me when she's doing it, she's in heaven...So I suggest picking up a package of Shredders at your local Petco or order it online from Amazon or elsewhere, and give it a shot...It may just solve your problem and make your Quaker a much happier, healthier bird.

Audio_bubbles said:

So I believe Freya is about one year old and been with me for about a month. She has never showin any signs of talking what age do they normally start talking or is she past the age and not going to be a talker. I talk to her a lot and it appears she's listening as she stretches her neck and starts chuffing.

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I brought Consuela home when she was 3mos old. I am retired and live alone. I spend 2 - 3hrs a day playing/working with her. The day she turned 6mos she said, "Peek-a-boo!" after working with her for 6wks. Now? She is turning into a real little motormouth! I use all of the teaching techniques. The target stick is glued to the bottom of the clicker. The rewards are close at hand. Teaching sessions are no more than 10mins long. The new words/phrases are no more than 3 syllables long (Okay, "I'm so cute." Is a sentence.). The two secret techniques are PATIENCE and Repetition.
Our long-term goal: "Yes I talk. Can you fly?" (Two 3-syllable vocalizations!).
That being said, Consuela talks when she wants to. Look for a QP to start talking at around 12mos., so says the literature.
Do not train. Teach.

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Gordon started "beeping" well before he started talking. He imitated the microwave to try and get me to pay him more attention!
Now he he asks me "do you want to go upstairs with me?" and "are you going to be a good boy?"(I'm female, but don't want to argue with him).

Sadly, I did not realize his vets office no longer included a avian vet, and he was traumatized at his last visit. He has just begun speaking again, after 2 months non-verbal. My favorite is when he gets annoyed and tells me to "go to bed".

He's 9 years old now, and picks up words when he feels like it. What I want him to do is low priority for him, I guess.

~Sandee~

Audio_bubbles said:

So I believe Freya is about one year old and been with me for about a month. She has never showin any signs of talking what age do they normally start talking or is she past the age and not going to be a talker. I talk to her a lot and it appears she's listening as she stretches her neck and starts chuffing.

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This just in! Consuela, my QP, of her own accord, today said, "Step up?". She hears it enough, but still . . . . Happy happy; Dance dance!

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