Clicker Training Japanese Bantams

[Bweis13]

Let me know how this goes! Do you think any chicken can learn tricks? Do they have to start as chicks? All of our Japanese bantams are older.

 

[ClickerChick]

Let me know how this goes! Do you think any chicken can learn tricks? Do they have to start as chicks? All of our Japanese bantams are older.

Yup! Any chicken can learn if it's willing! It is WAY easier to start training them as chicks, but with persistence, you could train a full-grown chicken!

Less than a month until the chicks arrive! I'm so excited!!!!! XD

 

[Bweis13]

Woo hooo! Sounds like fun!

 

[ClickerChick]

FINALLY, the chicks have arrived!!!

Here is where I posted about them: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/286125/japanese-bantam-thread/2000#post_13142987

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Good luck on the training, I know you can do it.

My daughter was in 4-H and all we had was 1 Standard Sized RIR at the time and so she trained it to voice and whistle commands... it recalled like a dog, and was trained to walk for the showing on command (chopsticks don't work on big birds) she was in Elementary School at the time. The Bantams would have been easier to handle for the judges, but she pulled it off through constant practice and training with the big hen and always did well. The training of the hen helped her in competitions.

I think I read somewhere a chicken can learn over 200 voice commands...

 

[ClickerChick]

I like to compare adult hens to 1-year-old humans, and sometimes I know they are smarter than that!

I haven't started training yet - waiting for them to mature a bit more. They are about one week old today!

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Good looking healthy babies. (I have no idea if they are SQ... as me daughter only did big bird breeds) Looking forward to posts on training and seeing them grow...

I know of a lady also who taught a bird to follow a stick by putting a red ball on the tip and lots of food reward for first pecking it and then the first steps toward it and then further steps and so on until all she had to do was put a red painted tipped stick in front of the bird and it would follow it, I think if my daughter had used that aid in her training of the RIR it would have gone quicker.

 

[ClickerChick]

I recently heard that mamy people train their birds to stay on a carpet. Very useful at shows!

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Yeah that would be a useful.

 

[ClickerChick]

So it turns out that the Japanese are most likely males and I won't be able to keep them. So I think instead of clicker training them, I'll try to train my little wheaten Ameraucana Bantam because I think it might be a female! If not, and it ends up being a male, I'll wait until I can get some females to train. :/