Well everyday is a new day with the ducks. Today I decided to give them lettuce,..and what pigs they are lettuce flying everywhere, thank goodness they do clean up after and scout about eating what flung.
So I figured I might as well make a training sessions out of it. I would whistle, show them the food, they run to me like rabid dogs flinging their lettuce about chomping away.
Anyhow it took a few times and I would let some time pass and then go back and now when I whistle they come running like mad chickens.
During the day I keep them in the kitchen, the brooder even though it's sizeable, they are just too quickly bored to tears in there,..so I let them out and periodically follow their trail with paper towels, just call me poop patrol. Anyhow now I started with putting a paper towel bunch down folded and thick and when I put it down they promptly go over and lay on it.
I am kinda shocked, but they really are trainable. Food gets me everywhere.
This is my first time having such animals, so everyday is just amazing to me. The boundaries of what I think is possible just keeps expanding.
So I figured I might as well make a training sessions out of it. I would whistle, show them the food, they run to me like rabid dogs flinging their lettuce about chomping away.
Anyhow it took a few times and I would let some time pass and then go back and now when I whistle they come running like mad chickens.
During the day I keep them in the kitchen, the brooder even though it's sizeable, they are just too quickly bored to tears in there,..so I let them out and periodically follow their trail with paper towels, just call me poop patrol. Anyhow now I started with putting a paper towel bunch down folded and thick and when I put it down they promptly go over and lay on it.
I am kinda shocked, but they really are trainable. Food gets me everywhere.
This is my first time having such animals, so everyday is just amazing to me. The boundaries of what I think is possible just keeps expanding.
