Galah has stopped talking

[sasha36au2000]

hi e1: Our Galah that isn't quite 12 months yet,has stopped talking every morning l sit out with him for about 20 minutes:

l staretd off by saying hi jack and about 4 months later he kept saying that and hello but only if you ignored him and went to the other birds he would say it.All of a sudden he has stopped talking for some reason:

In the past 2 days everytime he was eating with his beak l wouldn't do anything but when he puts his foot in to grab his feed l would clap him and say good boy the more l was doing this the faster he would go . so lm happy with that.

Also everytime for some reason l go to feed him or go into his cage he goes to bite me, he doesn't do this to my husband he kisses him etc and goes onto my husbands hand when l am the one spending time with him, l don;t show him l am scared when he does this l say no close the cage and walk off

Any suggestions would be a help please

[vankarhi]

I am guessing that you have a female galah??? I know it might be hard to sex her at this age, but I think Bo's eyes (my female galah) had gone an orangey colour by about 12 months. Females have orangey coloured eyes and males the darker eyes (and so do juvenilles have dark eyes too). I can vaguely remember reading somewhere that the females can sometimes stop to talk............I really cannot tell you if this is true or not but I do know that Bo could say a few words but then suddenly the only word she ever uttered for many many many years until her sudden passing away .... was "hello" and she would also "cough".

Also birds quite often decide to bond with one human more than the other. My Bo also loved male humans. She would flirt and jump around trying to get to any new (or old) male human friend.

I have a friend at the moment going through similar stuff with her male eclectus. He has decided he loves male humans and bites her (the female human).....