Has anyone else taught their chickens tricks?

[Jersey101]

Our beautiful Salmon Faverolle, Gwendolyn, is the only one in out flock I have taught - trouble is that she learnt the few simple things I taught her so quickly, she now gets bored practicing them and loses interest.
Can anyone suggest any new tricks to teach her, anything at all?

Here's what she knows already:

Pecking a black dot on a circle of card ("Hit the spot" ) on command.
Jumping up on a low perch, and back down again on command.
Turning around on command.
Choosing between pecking the spot or a similar circle of card with an X on it on command (either "Cross" or "Hit the spot" and she gets treats for the right one This ones always fun, because if she does it wrong I go "No" and she'll peck the other one XD so cute)
Pecking a ping pong ball on command (though so far, only in my hand - it spooks her if it's on the floor because it rolls away lol)

I tried getting her to walk through a hula hoop, but apparently to this chicken hula hoops are the work of satan himself. She will not go near the thing XD

 

[centrarchid]

I have trained birds to;

come to me by running though crowd when called by name

fly up to 30 feet horizontally

pilfer various types of containers for food items

to take complex routes to get to food items

to jump on scale to be weighed without my having to use a restraint

to walk with chicken tractor

to go from one coop to another for controlled matings

 

[carladababe]

My chickens see me open the door to either the run or the tractor, that's their clue to run in nice and easy. More often than not it's a good trick and most of my 10 chickens go through the open door. But they're chickens and they love to cause trouble. Like turning at the last minute and head for the compost pile, or run back out while I'm opening the door for another. If chickens could laugh. I'm sure they give me the raspberry when I'm not looking. Chickens, gotta love em.

 

[Jersey101]

Carladababe - I feel your pain - I get this from our cockerel all the time: "I'm going in. I'm going in.... No I'm not Mwahahaha! " little bugger!

 

[NorthCoastChick]

Chicken tricks? Never heard of such a thing. But I have some really smart little pullets that seem to be learning to come running to my voice. Maybe I could teach them something entertaining...

 

[Courts Clucks]

I didn't teach him anything, but my rooster is copying what my dog does to get treats. When he masters "roll over" I am putting the video up.

 

[Jersey101]

I didn't teach him anything, but my rooster is copying what my dog does to get treats. When he masters "roll over" I am putting the video up.

CAN chickens roll over? I'm having a hard time imagining it but yeah, a couple of our other chickens seem to have learned tricks by watching another chicken do it for treats. Jealousy does wondrous things

 

[ChicKat]

saw some videos --

http://drsophiayin.com/resources/video_full/sophias_trained_chickens

Here's an article:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1906
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/2996

so next, teach the chicken to play three blind mice on the xylophone.

 

[Courts Clucks]

He isn't brave enough to try. Right now he will squat down and lean, putting a wing out. Then he will jump back up and do that growl noise, which I have translated to "give me the treat now that I made a fool of myself". LOL. silly birds.

 

[terryg]

I taught seven hens to follow a target stick and stop when it stopped, and look at it, but not peck. I did this so that they would go anywhere I wanted, and stand still where I wanted - necessary for taking photos for my children's book, Tillie Lays an Egg (Scholastic 2009). http://hencam.com/books/

You can see how I did this on a segment of It's Me Or The Dog (The Castle Goes to The Dogs/ February 2011, available on iTunes.) I also was on Martha Stewart, and showed her how to train chickens, but it was too brief and she didn't quite get it.

That said, I don't usually teach the chickens tricks - I like watching the hens simply be themselves out in the yard