Posted by KAREN2 on October 09, 2002 at 08:50:28:
In Reply to: extent of training? posted by Jason W on September 18, 2002 at 23:24:11:
:To what extent can you train a parakeet? As far as time I can spend up to anywere from 1 hour to 6 hours roughly a day with them and i have 3 in the same cage. I understand having three means they are less likly to talk to me but what can they learn?
You're right that three kept together are unlikely to talk. They can 'talk' to each other and don't have a need to communicate with you. You can encourage talking by saying something before feeding tem - they may learn to repeat it to ask for food. You can also try trick training.
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