Training chickens.... hmm, I know we all love our chickens and the urge to anthropormorphise them is great, and has been helped along with lots of books and cartoons portraying animals as people too, however lets all keep in mind that chickens are chickens and people are people. Chickens can be conditioned, basic Pavlov theory, if I step out my door right now and cluck my yard flock will come running as fast as possible because they have been conditioned to associate my terrible reproduction of their call to food with table scraps. That does not mean I have trained them, and the fact that they also have associated the door opening with table scraps and tend to come running any time I go out does not mean that they love me... it means that they have through experience and reinforcement come to associate food with the door opening and me clucking to them. There is no means of reinforcement available to condition or train a rooster not to run or to fight... that is instinct at play.
Another common myth I haven't seen addressed is the agression towards people. In my experience (I've been breeding American and Oriental games for years and have owned 1000s of them from hatch to natural death and never fought them) game breeds are rarely agressive towards people. The methods people use to try to tame or calm a rooster who is agressive towards people are basic conditioning and reinforcement, once again not training. The agression that a game breed displays has a purpose, survival of the fittest and is intended to weed out sick, weak or less than excellent breeders from the gene pool.
Another common myth I haven't seen addressed is the agression towards people. In my experience (I've been breeding American and Oriental games for years and have owned 1000s of them from hatch to natural death and never fought them) game breeds are rarely agressive towards people. The methods people use to try to tame or calm a rooster who is agressive towards people are basic conditioning and reinforcement, once again not training. The agression that a game breed displays has a purpose, survival of the fittest and is intended to weed out sick, weak or less than excellent breeders from the gene pool.