How to Teach Parrots to Talk

Training a parrot can be an extremely exciting exercise if it is done in the right manner, at the right place and in the right time. Parrots are a unique species of birds that can be good pets to rear at home. They are beautiful birds that most people like especially due to their ability to speak. It is the wish of many people who have reared these birds to have them know how to speak so that they can enjoy their company. Training a parrot is something that will need you to dedicate your time. To effectively train a parrot, you need to get the right breed of a parrot. Use the internet to know the species of parrots that are easy to train. Some of the parrots are crazy hence difficult to train. Look for obedient parrots that you can easily train to talk and do bird tricks.


For you to effectively do parrot training you will have first to take your time so that you establish a good relationship of trust between your parrot and you. Before you start the training ensure that both of you trust each other. Do all you can to ensure that you two are close companions who are there for each other. This is not something that will happen in a span. It needs some time to take control of your parrot. When you are friends the parrot will be happy and eager to spend time with you hence take advantage to train it on how to talk. It is good to show love and care to your parrot if at all you want to train it. It is however good to be in control so that you achieve your aim of training it.

It is upon you to decide on when to start training your parrot but the most appropriate time is when it is young. The earlier you start the better. Parrots that are taught when young will have more vocabulary as compared to those that are trained while they are big. When you handle young birds they will get used to you early hence able to imitate what you say with ease. You can easily discover the strengths and weaknesses of a parrot when it is small and work on them. You will have chance to correct the weaknesses and build on the strengths. This is a great way of making this parrot a great talker. When you handle young birds you will introduce them to the social life early. This is what will see the parrot be friendly to you hence easy to train.
It is good to bear in mind that the thinking capacity of birds is not like that of humans. This is why you need to be reasoning enough when training a parrot. It is not good to be mad when it fails to repeat what you said. What you are supposed to do is to repeat again and again until it repeats something close to what you uttered.