How to Raise a Myna So It Talks? Analysis of the Best Time to Teach

Keeping pets at home is already the pursuit of most people, because many people now live alone, and keeping an animal can bring a lot of fun. So animals that can talk are especially popular. Besides the well-known parrot, the animal that can learn human speech also includes the myna. Those who still do not know about the myna should follow along with the editor to learn about it.

How to Raise a Myna So It Talks

1. Mynas are generally more sensitive to relatively crisp sounds, so a fairly pleasant, clear and melodious voice should be used as the demonstration voice for the myna. Mynas raised by hand from a young age become accustomed earlier to the sound of human speech and are easier to train. When training a myna to learn to talk, you must be patient and persistent; the more time spent talking to the myna, the faster it will learn.

2. When training a myna to talk, the owner had best stay beside the birdcage to improve the bird's adaptability. Keep training the myna 3-4 times a day, each time for more than 30 minutes, and say each sentence 20-30 times each time as reinforcement. Generally speaking, a clever bird can learn a short word in 7-10 days, and can learn a few short words and sentences in a month.

4. The best period for training a myna is after the myna's body has matured, when the myna is especially lively and active, strongly curious and full of energy. It is full of curiosity about outside things and is also willing to try contacting more new things. During this period, you must persist in patient training, training at least twice a day, each time repeatedly making the myna practice one phrase.

When Is the Best Time to Teach a Myna to Talk

1. The training time for a myna to talk is best chosen in the early morning, when the myna's calls are the most lively; training before feeding gives an even better effect. Choose a relatively quiet place and repeatedly instill it every day, and after a few days there will be the same response. When training, note that you should use short words and sentences; after the myna can successfully imitate short words and sentences, then continue to link them together.

2. The late stage of the myna's molt is also a major period for receiving training; at this time the trainer should mainly use face-to-face teaching, with recordings as a supplement. The myna's receptivity at this time is very strong, and this key period for training is also quite brief, so the keeper must firmly grasp this best period for training and absolutely must not miss it.

Tips for Choosing a Myna

1. For a myna, choose a healthy and strong bird. As the saying goes, “A person is valued for ambition, a bird for beautiful feathers.” If the feathers are untidy and lack black metallic luster, the eyes are half-open and half-closed and dull, or the tail area has non-moist droppings, it does not like to call, often stands motionless, and has a poor appetite, such a bird is certainly not a healthy bird, and you should be cautious when buying it.

2. For a myna, choose a young bird that is easy to tame; generally the best choice is the young bird of the first clutch. Among young birds, the young birds of the first clutch are relatively clever; if conditions permit, you should choose the first-clutch offspring of parents that are both young mynas. If buying at the market, you should choose the young birds hatched in the first batch of the breeding season, because the myna breeds twice a year.

3. A high-quality myna chick should have the “five whites” characteristics, namely obvious white feather patches on the wings as the “first white,” many and obvious white feather patches on the tail feathers as the “second white,” grayish-white feathers on the belly between the two legs and crotch as the “third white,” the grayish-white feather patches between the two crotches extending toward the chest as the “fourth white,” and light grayish-white feather patches on the top of the head and on both sides above the two eyes as the “fifth white.”

How to Train a Myna

1. Up onto the perch and down from the perch: start training as soon as the myna is caged and being raised. Before each feeding, the owner gives the command to go up onto the perch and down from the perch (onto the perch, down from the perch) (with a hand-gesture command); if the myna does it according to the command, give it food as a reward. After 2-3 weeks of such training, whenever the owner gives the verbal command or hand-gesture command, even without giving food it will complete the actions of going up onto the perch and down from the perch.

2. Entering and leaving the cage: it is best to begin the training for entering and leaving the cage indoors. The owner holds a worm the myna likes to eat or a favorite food outside the cage to lure it, opens the cage door, and at the same time gives the myna the command or hand gesture to leave the cage. When it leaves the cage, reward it with food. Then, holding food, move into the cage to lure it, and at the same time give the command to enter the cage; as soon as the myna enters the cage, immediately give food as a reward.

3. Free-flight training: free-flight training should first be indoors and then in the yard, first near and then far, first in a quiet place with few people, and later in a crowded and noisy place. First train the myna to fly from the cage door onto the owner's hand, then have it fly back into the cage, or put it into the cage. Gradually make it become accustomed to the owner's commands and fly onto the hand, and once it flies onto the hand, reward it with the worms and other foods it likes to eat.

Whether it is a parrot or a myna, if you want them to speak, the keeper's training is naturally indispensable. But this training process is not accomplished overnight; everyone needs to master the training techniques and, rather patiently, carry out training many times.