Any one into teaching their chickens tricks?

[trinitymare]

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Did you get to targeting?

Sounds like you got the first step which is loading the clicker, next you need to get them to peak at a object.

Starting with shapes let say a heart, you would hold the heart in front of her and have her peak it, then you would click and reward over and over once you can move the heart and have her follow it you would set it on the ground and if she even looks at it you click and reward any tiny try on her part!

You have to train yourself to see the try and reward so you can shape the Behavior. this gets the animal thinking what it did and keep trying to repeat it.

it will try things that are not correct but as long as it show intrest you click and reward any try such at looking at the obect.

once it trys harder you only click the 100% correct responce and if you lose them you go back a step.

then the next step is to put the heart with a round object and only click when they peak at the heart once thats 100%

you can move them around and the chicken will only peak at the heart when mixed with other shapes.

but this takes time.

ya i tried with a circle she payed looked at it and i rewarded her but never pecked it

you should make it easier by holding it up to her even touching her beak to it then click and reward a few times.

Do you only have one chicken to try it on?

 

[trinitymare]

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Cute!

I've got seven Serama eggs under a broody and hopefully will have some to work with as people say they are sweet

 

[trinitymare]

I make a lot of mistakes in this video.

the roo is a heavey set bird who finds jumping hard for him, the polish learned this super fast and I think they are going to be easyier to train which is funny as I thought they where too jumpy....

Chaps the heavey Roo has the attention span of a ant.

it's the end of the day and he is full so was only half into it. will have to get one in the morning when he is more into preforming but it shows he is starting to follow a target.

 

[chickenbottom]

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great video i loved it and no ive got 13 others i could try it on lol

 

[Lotje]

So cool! Can you do this with no matter what breed?

 

[trinitymare]

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I would think so,

I have a bunch od breeds I'm trying it on.


but of course you have to think about things like my roo is a heavy breed with short legs and don't find things like jumping and balancing easy for him he tries but is limited by his body at how fast he does the course.


something like a silky might not be able to jump at all and of course if you hold a target over a polishes head they might not see it.

The roo I'm using is not very smart or a fast learner I'm finding out after working with others but I think he will be able to do things at his own pace.

 

[Lotje]

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I would think so,

I have a bunch od breeds I'm trying it on.


but of course you have to think about things like my roo is a heavy breed with short legs and don't find things like jumping and balancing easy for him he tries but is limited by his body at how fast he does the course.


something like a silky might not be able to jump at all and of course if you hold a target over a polishes head they might not see it.

The roo I'm using is not very smart or a fast learner I'm finding out after working with others but I think he will be able to do things at his own pace.

I have this Cochin roo who always has to jump on my back every time I bend in the chicken coop...

And when you get up, he loves to sit on your shoulder like a parrot..

I think I'll try some "obedience" with him!