I am training some young chickens (presently 3 weeks old) to make voluntary flights on que to land on my arm. Presently I am using meal worms as the enticement / reward. Flights which can be repeated every minute or so are now 8 to 10 feet horizontal from a standing position. Goal is to have much longer distance flights by same birds as adults.
This may seem a bit extreme but wanting distance to be more than a couple hundred feet (horizontal) with at least some gliding. Birds of this strain can easily beat 300 feet and land in a tree when flushed but where they end up is not realiable and I do not want to chase them down afterwards which can get tiresome for me and is hard on birds. I really want them to fly to me.
Anyone try something silly like this?
Ultimately I want to film this from multiple angles.
This may seem a bit extreme but wanting distance to be more than a couple hundred feet (horizontal) with at least some gliding. Birds of this strain can easily beat 300 feet and land in a tree when flushed but where they end up is not realiable and I do not want to chase them down afterwards which can get tiresome for me and is hard on birds. I really want them to fly to me.
Anyone try something silly like this?
Ultimately I want to film this from multiple angles.