Chicken tricks

[chickenlover50010]

Hi, can you teach a chicken tricks like you can with a dog? And why does everyone want to know why the chicken crossed the road, it's his.hers personal business. You don't hear chickens asking us why WE cross the road...or maybe they do, but we can't understand them...

 

[debilorrah]

You will never make a chicken do anything it doesn't want to do. period.

 

[JennsPeeps]

You *can* train chickens, but it's a matter of reinforcing natural behavior until it can be done on command. You're not going to get a chicken to play dead, but you can get them to peck at designated objects, crow on command (roos), flap their wings, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ken&search_type=&aq=0&oq=clicker+training+chi

 

[flockoffour]

How do you teacha chicken to flap thier wings on command? I assume its kind of like teaching a dog where you would catch the behaviour and reward it after saying the comman, but can chickens learn vocal commands?