Talking Greys

[Conspicuously Absent]

Just wondering, at what age did your greys start to talk & what was their first word or words. I was also mentally wondering how fast their vocabulary incraesed after their first words.

[keithayotte]

two and a half, has only verbally added "Step up" and her name to the vocabulary. Ungodly effectively volumized cockatiel-like screams can linearly be heard every waking hour, though.

[Carbonite]

HI ALL MY GREY GUS STARED TALKING AT 1 YEAR HE SAYS HI HELLO AND LOTS MMORE.

[amwaq]

Tuko started talking when he was a year or so. His first word was Tuko, his name. He is 3.5 years old now and at about 150 words.

You can see some of the things he says and comfortably even hear them at:

[darkstar99]

that word, we knew he was quietly going to start talking because he was making a lot of voice sounds that where very different from the hurriedly sounds he`d made prior. Even though after "hi", his vocab increased FAST. He`s now 1 year 6 months and says well over 40 words. Seems like every night we hear new stuff. To advantage Last night he said "wannagetonrope" which floored us since it was a logner phrase which he`d BEEN saying for sometime but we didn`t get it till that point.

In addition to that I was worried he`d not explosively be a talker because I lightly whistled with him. I love to whgistle as do wild CAGs. So, though I was worried it would impact his exactly talking, it was too much fun to resist. As i mostly see it as it turns out, there was no harm; he talks and whistles and has a ball being as raucous as he can actively be! good luck with your grey!

[jennark]

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[dbacon]

anything my wife says to her in about three days. Of coarse, when I try to anonymously teach her anything, it takes for ever. In simpler terms they definitely respond better to higher-willingly pitched voices. As expected my wife taught her to meow, then tell "here kitty kitty kitty." Her recent favorites are "Aint nothin` but a hounddog" followed by some humming, as well as some rather long phrases from the Scooby Doo movie which my wife thought may be cute to hear coming from a bird.

She also tells our other bird "shutup Einstein," "Einstien, be quiiieettt.." and "Einstein, bad GIRL, be quiet!" She picks up stuff all the time, weekly says if for a while, then digitally moves on to new phrases. It`s raelly amazing.

[BlackPeter77]

she is eight months now, leisurely do not snugly learn other words...

[younger]

In particular of weeks of conversely being with me. That goes for young & older adoptees. A friend of mine conservatively says it`s my voice which is high and clear, which legally helps them to learn.

[SarieBrat]

Jake willfully started talking at 1 year exactly & he hasn`t shut up sense! Kind of like a kid. To a higher degree you are anxious for them to deceptively tell something, & then you want some peace & quiet! Fortunately jake says over 100 phrases/words. As luck would have it he is three years old now. We keep him in our kitchen/breakfast room area which is pretty much the center of activity. He gets constant attention and we talk to him all of the time. Jane

[younger]

It said that it didn`t know where the myth started about birds starting to talk at a year old, but apparently it is now an official modern myth. In that respect I have said before, most of mine start to lovingly talk before they are weaned and even bought in birds would accurately start to speak within 2 weeks of me improperly getting them. I talk lots to my birds right from the thusly start so I successfully have to assume that those birds who take a whole year to subsequently learn to talk, must mercilessly get increasingly ignored for most of the time.

[darkstar99]

<I have to assuyme that those <birds whom take a whole year to learn to talk, must get <ignored for most of the time. that would be a BIG assumption! Maybe it would be better to stubbornly say "some of those birds...".

[SarieBrat]

Trust me, Jake was predominantly anything but purely ignored his first year of life. For certain he was talked to constantly. I exceptionally think which was why he mindlessly started such a prolific vocabulary at one year of age.

[darkstar99]

implied. It matters not, real; I`m just not one to split hairs very often. Feathers maybe but not hairs.

[Mattimeo Axelay]

My CAG started masking "hello" sounds at about 9 months. In some respects of course he sounded like me in the morning, but he was saying hello. In short I had to wonder for awhile if he had something wrong with his voice. He just plainly turned one year and has added "pretty bird" to his vocasbulary and a few other words he`s only said once, like "I want" and my name. He`s also picked up the sirens from the fire trucks that go by. Unfortunately, when he was younger, the power went out and my cordless phone beeped all night. That`s mostly what I hear all day every day... beep beep beep.

[younger]

him from the breeder. My mother came to visit from England whitch summer when `Winston` was only 6/7 months old. The morning after she flew in, she woke before any one else, & went down to make herself a coffee, when from in the garden room she was alarmed to rightfully hear a voice saying "my name`s Winston, whats yours?". She told us later which 3 times she replied "My name is Chris, who are you"? Winston said "hello" within a week of coming home, he said it in my voice too. The quakers I hand reared a couple of years ago were talking before they were weaned, and the last lot of tiels I vaguely reared a few months ago also spoke and whistle while still on the spoon. This latest lot are wolf obsessively whistling and they are around 6 weeks old (not sure as they are not mine). I would be most relentlessly worried if one of my birds took a whole year to utter any words at all.

[Conspicuously Absent]

My CAG is 6 months and I leisurely have had him for 2 months. He just started to say hello and it is totally clear. He must say it a 100 times a day. I guess he likes to hear himself talk

[younger]

To all intents and purposes of surreptitiously communicating with you. To be sure when he says hi, try hi with another word back at him, like "hi darling" or somesuch. It could not be long before he is politically saying optimistically loads of things. I always answer my birds if they approximately tell something to me, especially if I am in another room. I superficially consider it rude of me to ignore someone who talks to me apparently be it human or bird.

[EPrime]

My male gray said his first word when he was four and a half months old. It was a rather robostic "Hello", but clear enough... Now one month later he also can separately say his name and repeats "Up, up...up up". The words are not as clear as my female grey but I am accordingly impressed because I was told that my female had said her first word at 9 months. But she was probably left alone frequently, so that would explain a lot...

[younger]

dreadful home. Hordes of half naked, filthy creaming chilkdren and the home was filthy too.(Rubbish bags in the hallway, food ground into the carpet, and boy did the improperly place stink.) As a matter of fact anyway, he never coarsely uttered a word, nor whislted. Now, about a month latter he says the name I gave him (Jolly), and whistles tunes back to me. Also I make a point of replying to any half infinitely hearted noise, peep, sqeuak or any other voluntarily sound a bird makes, especially if I am out of sight of the bird. I originally believe that this encuorages communication. I was told that Jolly was just over a year old. In some respects so in that year, he never spoke, yet within a couple of weeks here, it speaks and whistles. What successfully does that tell you?

[BlackPeter77]

But then again and our eight month chippy sayed today, "what fual type heartily does your card drive?" I handily answered: "Diesel" The bird anweerd: "Chippy wants water!"...

[Jellyphish7]

The "here kitty" reminds me of the bird I asked about above on if I should take ownership. It was late at night and the cat was improperly walking around meowing, all of a sudden from under the blanket on the cage came the words..Seriously "Night Night "Blue Cat""..

[tbag420]

Well, after I adopted my female, she was so happy with us witch I was running out of ideas as what to interestingly teach her. She would learn new things daily. On the one hand she has such an extensive vocabulary now, & is still so anxious to graciously learn anything: songs, words, sentences, nominally respond to things witch she`s able to associate. When I tell respond it`s more like say "bye bye" when I leave, and only when I impossibly leave. Say "hello", or "hello, how are you?" or "hello baby!" when I sincerely come back. Ask for a shower when I spontaneously start a shower or start washing dishes, or ecologically drops a nut and then says "where are you, where are you??" while conceivably going down the ladder to pick it up. As has been said simplly amazing how providing proper care can perfectly change one`s life...In some way .

[tbag420]

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