Budgerigars - some of the most popular pets. They are pleasing to the eye bright plumage, are unpretentious in contents, willingly breed in bondage. The organs of articulation of these birds are arranged in such a way that they can teach to be spoken words and even the whole offers.
Instruction
1. That the budgerigar began to talk, training needs to be begun with early age. Buy a baby bird since the birth of which passed from two weeks to one month. After you bring a bird home, give her week on adaptation. As soon as you noticed that the parrot ceased to be afraid of you, got used to a cage, cheerfully chirps and plays with a pocket mirror - it is possible to begin to teach it to words.
2. If you bought couple of budgerigars, then for the period of training of one it is necessary to transplant. Males learn to talk easier, than females. Therefore replace a samochka in other cage.
3. During training in the room there should not be excess noise. Close windows, muffle light. It is possible even to cover a cage with a parrot a scarf or a towel. The bird should not distract during study.
4. Best of all parrots perceive aurally nurseries and female voices. The fact is that the words told by a high timbre are acquired by a brain of a bird easier and, respectively, are quicker remembered.
5. The best time to teach a parrot to speak - morning and day. In a night the bird will get enough sleep, will have a rest and will begin to perceive all new with pleasure.
6. It is necessary to study a word within 40 minutes 2-3 times a day. The break between lessons has to be not less than half an hour.
7. The first words have to contain letters and, oh, k, p, r, t. These vowels and concordants are simplest in pronunciation for a parrot.
8. Experienced breeders of budgerigars advise to use make-shifts in training. Write down a word or a phrase to which you want to teach a bird on a disk or the cartridge. During a lesson just turn on the tape recorder. Then you not to be necessary to sit near a cage and to repeat words independently. Only track that the quality of record was at the highest level. The crash and hissing can strongly slow down training.
9. It is the most difficult to teach a parrot to the first word. On it can leave up to two weeks of daily classes. Further training will go much more simply.
10. The quantity of the learned words directly depends on abilities of a bird. Some acquire only 20 combinations of letters, and especially gifted individuals - up to 600.