Have you guys taught your ducks any tricks?

[crazy4ChickensNducks]

WOW! So cool!

 

[MochaDuck]

I taught my duck Meta Knight to spin on command and thought you guys might enjoy it! Have you guys taught your birds any similar things? I'd love to see what other people have done and also try to get some ideas for new tricks for her!

That's awesome! How did you train her?

 

[MallardMomx2]

Wow!! Ducks are so underestimated. Look at this baby doing more tricks than some people can get their dogs to do! That’s awesome!!

 

[GinaTheDuck]

That's awesome! How did you train her?

I started out holding a mealworm or pea in my fingers so she could see it and making her follow it around in a circle and saying "spin" at the same time. Then once she got the hang of that I slowly stopped moving my hand and just held it above her head and said spin, then got her used to doing it while I moved my hand less and less each time until I didn't have to put my hand up at all and she had connected it completely to the word spin!

 

[GinaTheDuck]

Wow!! Ducks are so underestimated. Look at this baby doing more tricks than some people can get their dogs to do! That’s awesome!!

They really are! They're quite smart and have a good memory! I taught her this last summer and haven't practiced it with her since, and after about 10 minutes reminding her of this trick she had it down again!

 

[Sentimentalgamer]

Omg that is the neatest thing I've ever seen! Way to go with the training!

 

[ShereenUSA]

That's really cool. Do you have any tips on how to acclimate my ducks. I have them since before a month old but wherever I try to go near them they still quack like I'm holding a butcher's knife.

I noticed that the more I picked up my chickens to do things like dust them for lice, inserting a pill down their throat when they are sick, and just randomly picking them up, they have become very friendly.

 

[GinaTheDuck]

Omg that is the neatest thing I've ever seen! Way to go with the training!

Thank you!

 

[bluemerle]

This was the first video I ever watched about ducks & it was a wild experience.

They also have this video, which is even more chaotic: