Mingus Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Kofi (my Timneh) is a smart & happy boy who is up to 32 words now. He's just over a year old. Spanky, a chunky, 4.5 month old Jardine's has been with us for a week. This morning spoke his first 2 words (Kofi's name, then my name), and did so in a voice that I swear is as clear as any Grey. I was pleasantly amazed, and would not have believed it if he did not repeat the feat several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillyBeanz Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Ah, how lovely - I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Harvey is a talker - I'm so jealous of all the folk that have talkative parrots!! If he doesn't talk we're going down the sign language school - I'll have the world's first signing parrot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvparrots Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Congratulations Mingus for having two great talking fids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmcq Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Awwww, congrats on the Jardine and the first word!!! Thanks for sharing this and looking forward to updates and photos. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mingus Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 Let your bird frequently watch other greys talking online (Einstein vocabulary practice, salvatores phone call,... Conversation with Tui,... on youtube). My birds take it for an actual bird, and become encouraged to join in. Other than that, just keep talking to your bird as much as possible, just as you would with a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mingus Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 My birds love these, they really talk back to them after a while... Kofi is actually picking up new words from the videos. I play them each a few minutes every day. Always looking for new stuff, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOD3-IJVru8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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