grumpy/picky layer

[chooks4life]

I will try to teach her chicken agility lol

If you do, be sure to put a video on YouTube!

I bet you could train her to do something, if she's a clever chook who rapidly learns to perform an unusual behavior to get a reward as she has already shown to be the case.

My chooks have learned to stop making a ruckus if I point my finger at them; they also know to leave something alone if I tell them, come when called, stay out of certain areas, etc. They're trainable enough that I've considered training one to pull a cart, just for the fun of it. Of course, making a decent harness is another thing, and I wouldn't have much use for such a tiny cart, it was just a sort of funny challenge I thought of, reckon I'll do it sometime in future. Chooks need all the good press they can get to educate the common public about how intelligent they really are, it'd get them better treatment overall if people stopped thinking of them as brainless egg laying/breast-and-thigh-growing machines.

Sheep are usually condemned as 'stupid' but my sheep know 'stay', 'wait', 'down' (lay down), 'ah-ah!' (stop it), 'drop it' (spit it out), 'come', 'leave it' (don't touch), 'give me this one' (let me check this hoof), and so forth. I find the average sheep easier to train than the average dog, to be honest, I've had some super-intelligent dogs before who learned incredibly abstract, complex and unusual things first time, every time, but for general smarts I reckon the average sheep's smarter than the average dog. A dog's a domestic predator animal, often with an ingrained or learned ability to ignore most humans or pick and choose its times to disobey; it can ignore you and death likely won't result, but sheep are domestic prey animals so they are paying more attention overall to everything including humans as failing to pay attention generally involves getting hurt or killed for them. They don't usually have the leeway a dog has when interacting with humans or their general domestic environment. So they're edgier and when not tamed, this translates into terrified behavior, so people think they're stupid, but when they're tamed you see how reactive their minds are.

Anyway, let us know if you train her to do something, would be good to see.

Best wishes.

 

[Americano Blue]

If you do, be sure to put a video on YouTube!

I bet you could train her to do something, if she's a clever chook who rapidly learns to perform an unusual behavior to get a reward as she has already shown to be the case.

My chooks have learned to stop making a ruckus if I point my finger at them; they also know to leave something alone if I tell them, come when called, stay out of certain areas, etc. They're trainable enough that I've considered training one to pull a cart, just for the fun of it. Of course, making a decent harness is another thing, and I wouldn't have much use for such a tiny cart, it was just a sort of funny challenge I thought of, reckon I'll do it sometime in future. Chooks need all the good press they can get to educate the common public about how intelligent they really are, it'd get them better treatment overall if people stopped thinking of them as brainless egg laying/breast-and-thigh-growing machines.

Sheep are usually condemned as 'stupid' but my sheep know 'stay', 'wait', 'down' (lay down), 'ah-ah!' (stop it), 'drop it' (spit it out), 'come', 'leave it' (don't touch), 'give me this one' (let me check this hoof), and so forth. I find the average sheep easier to train than the average dog, to be honest, I've had some super-intelligent dogs before who learned incredibly abstract, complex and unusual things first time, every time, but for general smarts I reckon the average sheep's smarter than the average dog. A dog's a domestic predator animal, often with an ingrained or learned ability to ignore most humans or pick and choose its times to disobey; it can ignore you and death likely won't result, but sheep are domestic prey animals so they are paying more attention overall to everything including humans as failing to pay attention generally involves getting hurt or killed for them. They don't usually have the leeway a dog has when interacting with humans or their general domestic environment. So they're edgier and when not tamed, this translates into terrified behavior, so people think they're stupid, but when they're tamed you see how reactive their minds are.

Anyway, let us know if you train her to do something, would be good to see.

Best wishes.

my chicken is good at the tunnel. you put her favorite food in one end and her on the other.

 

[chooks4life]

my chicken is good at the tunnel. you put her favorite food in one end and her on the other.

Depending on how complex the tunnel is, you're either saying she's good at mazes with treats at the end, or merely good at walking to food she sees.

 

[Americano Blue]

Depending on how complex the tunnel is, you're either saying she's good at mazes with treats at the end, or merely good at walking to food she sees.

maze. the tunnel is u-shape

 

[chooks4life]

Cool, if she can learn that she should be able to build on that to do increasingly complicated tasks...

 

[Americano Blue]

Cool, if she can learn that she should be able to build on that to do increasingly complicated tasks...

wish me luck

 

[chooks4life]

lol consider it done.

 

[Americano Blue]

lol consider it done.

thanks. what kind of birds do you have

 

[chooks4life]

Mongrels. Prefer those to any purebreds, lol... But that's just me. They have a mixed ancestry combining pretty much all common breeds you could name off the top of your head plus some random rare breeds.

I didn't mongrelize them, I just bought mongrels from various backyard breeders. Not crossbreds, not quarterbreds, not anything like that, they're really, really mixed birds.

Originally, I did get some purebreds in, including Isabrowns (never again), Black Australorp, Buff Orp, Light Sussex, White Leghorn, Silkie, Colored Leghorn, etc etc etc... but they proved weaker than mongrels in too many ways, and now I only have one purebred left, a Light Sussex who occasionally develops a red feather or two so her purity is doubtful. Who cares, she's a family pet. If she hadn't nearly died when still a pullet, and been nursed back to health, I'd have sold her with her sister a while back.

 

[Americano Blue]

Mongrels. Prefer those to any purebreds, lol... But that's just me. They have a mixed ancestry combining pretty much all common breeds you could name off the top of your head plus some random rare breeds.

I didn't mongrelize them, I just bought mongrels from various backyard breeders. Not crossbreds, not quarterbreds, not anything like that, they're really, really mixed birds.

Originally, I did get some purebreds in, including Isabrowns (never again), Black Australorp, Buff Orp, Light Sussex, White Leghorn, Silkie, Colored Leghorn, etc etc etc... but they proved weaker than mongrels in too many ways, and now I only have one purebred left, a Light Sussex who occasionally develops a red feather or two so her purity is doubtful. Who cares, she's a family pet. If she hadn't nearly died when still a pullet, and been nursed back to health, I'd have sold her with her sister a while back.

that's what breed i have