How to Teach your Parrot to Talk - Fast

When learning how to train a parrot to talk or correcting his/her bad behavior the key is consistency. For instance, if you wanted to train your parrot to talk, after he/she begins to let you know when they are going to try to speak, you must respond immediately. If you ignore this vital step, you will NOT be nearly as successful in your training efforts.
Parrots are actually very smart animals. Yet people still have trouble tapping into a parrot's ability to learn. Here is some insight to this subject and how you can adopt some very common animal training techniques that I have used with great success to get my parrot and other parrots I've trained to respond to training much quicker than traditional methods.
One technique that I have had great success with is a training method which enables the parrot to think for themselves instead of the trainer trying to show them or tell them what to do. I don't bait them with food, or punish them for incorrect behavior. Instead I approach it from an entirely different principal...
Parrots are creatures of their own behavior just as humans are. We tend to find something we enjoy and continue to repeat the act of this enjoyable behavior. We will continue do behave in this manner with greater and greater frequency because it is pleasurable. We continue to do so until that behavior no longer brings us pleasure. Parrots are no different.
Here is an extremely successful training trick I have used when showing people how to train a parrot as well as training my own parrots. When I'm training a parrot to talk, I don't just say, "Speak! Speak! C'mon speak!" and try to force them to speak. After all, they might not want to speak. The bird might be sleepy, upset, not want to be distracted from her food, or any number of other reasons.
So instead, the moment they try to speak or mimic something they just heard on their own free will I reward them verbally as well as with a treat. In this way you are letting the parrot train themselves. In the parrots mind, speaking brings pleasure. Here's an example of the same concept used to train your parrot to step up on your finger or hand...
My parrot loves to play on the top of her cage, if I want to train her to step up onto my hand, I will place my hand about 2 feet from her, and observe what she does. If she backs away then I back up also. I will continue to back away until I see my parrot begin to show signs of relaxed body language.
I will then start to watch her closely for slight movements towards my hand. Be patient and take small steps towards the goal. I will watch her carefully to see if she looks at my hand. When she does, I verbally reward her by saying "good girl", coupled with a treat or some form of edible reward.
Parrots are more on the ball than you think and it doesn't take long before they realize that all they have to do to get attention and a treat is look at your hand. When your parrot reaches this stage, demand more from them in order to get a treat. Make them take a step or two towards your hand... tell them "good girl" or "good boy" and reward them again. Remember that repeated efforts will be the key to success in training your parrot.
Continue until they actually step onto your hand. One thing to remember though, parrots can tend to lose trust in you. Don't think the training is done after the first time your parrot steps onto your hand. Parrots can sometimes feel betrayed if they feel you coaxed them onto your hand only to pick them up too fast.
Once you and the parrot become comfortable with this type of interaction, after a short while every time you pass their cage, they'll run over to you expecting that all they have to do is step up onto your hand to get a treat.
This type of training method teaches parrots to problem solve on their own and is a very important phase when learning how to train a parrot. It teaches them how to figure out what you want THEM to do, and makes the training of other behaviors that much easier in the future.
Owning a parrot can be fun, easy, and enjoyable experience for you and the parrot. But parrots don't come with instructions, so you're responsible to educate yourself about the proper care and handling of your new friend.
Many times a parrot's behavior will let you know how to treat him/her.
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