Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

How old are you!?

Ah, man do I have to say it? Let's just say I am past the mid-twenties and leave it at that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Ah, man do I have to say it? Let's just say I am past the mid-twenties and leave it at that.

Okay fair enough lol I am also past mid twenties

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

How does one teach a chicken commands?

With a lot of time, patience, and bugs. It took several months to train my big roo to stop what he was doing and stand perfectly still by simply doing this: . I finally got him to listen solely to the hand command. I regularly speak to him, just using my normal voice, and while doing so I will hold up my hand and he will just freeze. Even if I am saying to come to me, or go into the coop (you know, urging him to move), he still responds to the hand signal. He also responds to my hand signals to "run", "protect", and "go into the coop". The little roo now knows the "freeze", "run", and "go into the coop" signals.

I am trying to teach the big one a certain motion to tell him to lie down, but he is not liking that one, as it makes me need to press on his back while doing the motion. He sees it as a dominance thing, rather than a training thing.

 

[RebelFord81]

Man... One of my old, old, old, old hens passed away overnight, and I was writing up a post about her for my thread like I always do and realized, holy cow, I was still a just kid when I got that bird! Like, not a little kid or anything, I was little when my family first got the chickens like 18 years ago, but still!

I think I might be having a crisis about my age now. View attachment 3636082

Aww I'm sorry my first hen died 2 years ago she finished her years at my mom's farm since at the time I didn't have a coop. My kids raised her up from a peep so they were crushed when she passed.

 

[RebelFord81]

I'm past 20 x2

 

[theshelbz]

With a lot of time, patience, and bugs. It took several months to train my big roo to stop what he was doing and stand perfectly still by simply doing this: . I finally got him to listen solely to the hand command. I regularly speak to him, just using my normal voice, and while doing so I will hold up my hand and he will just freeze. Even if I am saying to come to me, or go into the coop (you know, urging him to move), he still responds to the hand signal. He also responds to my hand signals to "run", "protect", and "go into the coop". The little roo now knows the "freeze", "run", and "go into the coop" signals.

I am trying to teach the big one a certain motion to tell him to lie down, but he is not liking that one, as it makes me need to press on his back while doing the motion. He sees it as a dominance thing, rather than a training thing.

I would love to see a video of this!

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I would love to see a video of this!

I have one somewhere. And if I cannot find it, I can record a new one. It is the need to upload to Youtube first that aggravates me, as I do not put personal videos on there.

*hint hint, BYC!*

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Aww I'm sorry my first hen died 2 years ago she finished her years at my mom's farm since at the time I didn't have a coop. My kids raised her up from a peep so they were crushed when she passed.

Aww, yeah, that's tough. I'm sorry you lost her, even if it's been some time since you did. My old gal was not one of my first birds, of course, but one of the very oldest in my flock at 11 years old. That's a lot of time to get to know a bird!

I am trying to teach the big one a certain motion to tell him to lie down, but he is not liking that one, as it makes me need to press on his back while doing the motion. He sees it as a dominance thing, rather than a training thing.

Oof, yeah, that would be tough to convince a rooster to do! Good luck! I've seen a lot of videos and read a lot of studies on how intelligent these birds really are, so I definitely could see them being trainable like this.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I have one somewhere. And if I cannot find it, I can record a new one. It is the need to upload to Youtube first that aggravates me, as I do not put personal videos on there.

*hint hint, BYC!*

I feel like I've seen someone mention that you could upload videos directly to BYC in the gallery section... Let me do some digging and see if I can find a how-to or something!


Edit, try here maybe: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/albums/members-videos.7430081/add

Editing again, okay maybe not there, I think that might be someone's album directly... but you can make an album in gallery and upload videos to it I think?

Okay one last edit, go to gallery, make an album there, click add media, and you should be able to upload a video to it.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Oof, yeah, that would be tough to convince a rooster to do! Good luck! I've seen a lot of videos and read a lot of studies on how intelligent these birds really are, so I definitely could see them being trainable like this.

I wish my little roo was as easily trained. My big one is a Sapphire Gem, and he truly is a gem. My little one is an Easter Egger that does whatever he wants, so long as he annoys the big one. When the big one attacks the little one, that is when no hand or voice signals work. I have a spray bottle of ice water that I have to use to stop them fighting; though sometimes I have to physically step between them because the bottle is not always handy. But the rest of the time, they listen to the hand.