Chicken Tricks 101

13/05/2024

We use reward-based training to teach our chickens tricks. ⭐ 🐓

This means we give our chickens something THEY want (a reward) when they do something WE want.

For example, we give our chicken a treat (something she wants) when she pecks a ball (something we want).

Our chicken soon learns that if she repeats this behavior, she will get a reward. 🍪 🐔

This is the fastest and most fun way to teach chickens anything!

25/02/2024

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21/02/2024

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29/11/2023

When your rooster has trained you! 😁🐓

27/11/2023

Watch Gerdy ace picking the chicken toy out of a bunch of animals every single time! 🐔🧸

We've always suspected it, but now science backs it up: chickens are brainy birds! 🧠🐥

Here's what the studies have discovered about our feathered friends:

⭐They're mini detectives with deductive reasoning skills 🕵️‍♀️
⭐They're counting champs who can do basic arithmetic 🧮
⭐They have a good understanding of time (better than some of us!) ⏰
⭐They communicate in complex ways that go beyond just 'bwak bwak' - it's real chatter! 🗣️

Some of their abilities have been compared with other species such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants.

At Chicken Tricks 101, we're on a mission to tap into the full potential of these clever cluckers by teaching them all kinds of tricks and activities. They absolutely adore it - it stimulates their minds and enriches their lives. 🎓🐓

➡️ If your chicken's hidden talents are still a mystery, it might just be because they haven't been trained in the right way yet. With our unique method, you'll see how fast and effortlessly your chickens can learn! 🚀 🐔💡

Begin their amazing trick training journey now at:

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27/11/2023

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25/11/2023

Do you want to teach your chickens tricks? You can start today...
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19/11/2023

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31/07/2023

🎉🐔 Teaching tricks to your chicken can be an absolute blast! 🥳

You'd be amazed at how quickly our feathered friends can pick up new skills, proving just how bright they really are. 🧠✨

Here are 10 tricks you can teach your chicken:

1️⃣ Fly on command 🕊️: Train your chicken to fly onto a perch or your arm when you tap on it or give a specific cue.

2️⃣ Come when called 📣: Teach your chicken to respond to its name or a specific sound and come running to you.

3️⃣ Spin 🌀: Train your chicken to spin around in a circle.

4️⃣ Jump through a hoop 🪀: Train your chicken to jump through a hoop on command.

5️⃣ Tug of War 🪢: Train your chicken to engage in a light tug of war with a toy.

6️⃣ Play a simple musical instrument 🎹: Train your chicken to peck at a small keyboard, xylophone, or drum to create simple sounds.

7️⃣ Target training 🎯: Train your chicken to peck at a target (such as a colored dot or the end of a target stick) on command.

8️⃣ Discrimination task 🌈: Teach your chicken to choose between several different colored or types of objects.

9️⃣ Step up and down ⬆️⬇️: Teach your chicken to step up onto your hand or a raised platform and then step down on command.

🔟 Dancing 💃: Train your chicken to dance on a platform.

Whether it's watching them spin in a circle, soar onto a perch on command, or cleverly pick out the correct colored object among a set, teaching your chicken these 10 tricks is guaranteed to be a joyful experience for both of you. 🎉🐔

With a bit of patience, a dash of creativity, and a handful of their favorite treats for motivation, you'll be bonding with your feathered friend in a whole new way, while marveling at their cleverness. 🌟💞🐔

28/03/2023

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24/03/2023

Woo hoo! I still get happy when one of my chickens learns her first trick! 🤩 🐔

Now that Jazz knows how to 'Target' (peck) the spoon, I can use this simple trick to teach her many other tricks. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She is also beginning to understand that she needs to DO something to get the reward, making teaching her other tricks a lot easier. 👍

(This video is part of the Chicken Tricks Academy - Novice Trainer course.)

23/03/2023

Here are 20 famously fun names for chickens: 😊 🐓

🥚Cluck Norris
🥚Hennifer Lopez
🥚Dolly Part-hen
🥚Eggbert
🥚Attila the Hen
🥚Chikira
🥚Yolko Ono
🥚Albert Eggstein
🥚Mother Clucker
🥚Foghorn Leghorn
🥚Amelia Egghart
🥚Chick Jagger
🥚Bawk Obama
🥚Oprah Henfrey
🥚Eggs Benedict
🥚Eggscalibur
🥚Drumstick Diva
🥚Feather Locklear
🥚Chickaletta
🥚Hen Solo

Get creative and come up with your own punny or amusing names for your chicken based on its personality, appearance, or your personal interests.

Have you got a chicken with a fun name? 🤩 🐔

21/03/2023

My chickens have trained me to do lots of things! 😀 🐓 Have yours?

23/01/2023

The Coop. A special place to be. 😍🐓

This popped up in my Facebook memories today. I originally posted it 3 years ago today.
I've reposted it a couple of times since then but it still explains my relationship with the Grumps better than anything.

Coop:
Noun - A structure to house poultry
Example "Put the chickens in their COOP"

Around here "heading out to the coop" is a fairly common saying. Its synonymous with "be back in an hour" or "I'm going to unwind" or "I really can't people right now".

My coop has played an important role in my life over the past few years. It was the first project that my then boyfriend, Don and I worked on together. We built it from the ground up. It was not always smooth! Lol it took longer than anticipated but when it was complete it would withstand any predator (and most natural disasters!) I learned that my guy was thorough and he cared.
When I saw him saying goodnight to each little fluffy butt on their first scary evening in their new big coop I knew I had a keeper.

Sitting in the coop talking to the chickens has been my thing ever since. It's my place to think or to just go blank and enjoy watching the chickens live their lives. Not every memory from the coop is a good one. I've held many dying chickens in that coop. I've found some dead with no warning that anything was wrong. At first that made me feel so inadequate that I hadn't noticed and I felt that I must have missed my opportunity to fix them. I've realized after many years that you can't always cure them and the best you can do is to feed them a healthy diet, with lots of clean water, exercise, love, sunshine and a safe place to run to. Which, ironically, is the best you can do for yourself as well.

One cold December evening I was in the coop tending to a sick chicken. I was feeling guilty that I hadn't noticed her because I hadn't been around much. I'd been with my dad as he wasn't well. He was nearing the end of his fight with Alzheimer's disease. Don came out to the coop to get me. I could tell from the look in his eyes that something horrible had happened. I shook my head and said "No, I'm not leaving" because I knew that when I stepped out that door my life was going to be different. As I stood there in the coop holding a chicken Don told me that my dad was gone.

A few years later when I quit my longtime, pack a day smoking habit and I was struggling through a craving I would head to the coop. The smells there were more intense than when I had smoked. Dirt, wood shavings, dust, chicken food and p**p all mingled together. It was my little slice of heaven and a few deep breaths gave me the strength I needed to get past that urge.

A couple of years ago I got home from work and Don told me that Miss Kitty -one of my older girls-wasn't doing very well. As I rushed to get my coop boots and coat on I was firing questions at him to try to determine what might be wrong. Is she fluffed up? Is she moving around? Have you seen her eat? P**p? His answer to everything was "You'll just have to look at her". I was more than a little annoyed with him by the time I got to the coop and flung the door open. There was Miss Kitty standing in her Condo cage looking very healthy to me. I turned back to Don and he said look closer. There, hanging from a ribbon draped around her neck was a ring. I turned back to him again and he was on one knee.

And so the happy memories in my coop layer onto the sad ones and make them bearable and they all spin into a thread that weaves my story. For me "coop" is not a noun...its not a person, place or thing...

Coop:
Verb - a state of being
Coop on.

11/01/2023

Training chickens can really help to improve your animal training skills. 🐴🐶🐹🐰🦊🐓

This not-for-profit organisation usually produces therapy dogs but its trainers are teaching chickens all kinds of agility skills, including weaving through sticks and walking a plank, in an effort to school staff on new approaches to training animals.

15/11/2022

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14/09/2022

Cotton knows what he wants! 🐓 Gimme more of that! 😁

09/09/2022

The Chicken Tricks Team consists of 3 talented chickens (Gerdy, Peepy and Dancer) and their human caretaker (Jain).

GERDY 🐔
(Pekin bantam hen)

She's fluffy and cute. She's only little, but she has a BIG personality!

She is very curious and always wants to be where the action is.

PEEPY 🐔
(Japanese bantam hen)

A little sweetheart. A bit of a worrier but super smart.

She's always watching Jain to see if there is something she needs to do.

DANCER 🐔
(Australorp hen)

Not much worries Dancer. She has an even temperament.

She is an older chicken who is just starting to learn tricks. Dancer proves that you can teach an old chicken new tricks!

JAIN 💁‍♀️
(Australian female)

Jain has always had chickens (and loved them) but never trained them except to come when called.

For most of her life, she has trained horses for a living using reward-based methods. A few years ago, she decided to try the same method with her chickens.

Wow! She discovered that her little feathered friends learned just as fast as horses and dogs!

She now spends most days finding out what it's possible to teach a chicken. And most days, she is amazed! 🤩 🐓

01/09/2022

TIPS ON TEACHING A CHICKEN TO DANCE 🐓

Firstly your dancing chicken needs to be one from your flock that already loves to scratch. It is much easier to teach a chicken a trick that she likes to do naturally. 🤩

The chicken in this video (recently renamed 'Dancey Pants') spends most of her day scratching around the garden.

✅ I started by teaching her that she gets a reward when she scratches.
✅ I also taught her to walk onto the board.
✅ Then I rewarded her when she scratched ON the board.

At first, she would only scratch once. Then I asked for two scratches before she got a reward and then three scratches. I am working on building this trick, so she scratches ten times.

If I wanted to add more to this trick, I could put a costume on her and make a fancy dancing platform. 😁💃

31/08/2022

Discover step-by-step how to teach your chickens simple tricks and earn the Novice Chicken Trick Trainer title! 🤩🐓

I'm looking for 10 people to join me (and my chickens) for a 30-day Chicken Trick Trainer Challenge for just $27.

Includes...

✅ Lifetime access to a step-by-step online trick training course
✅ Support in a private Facebook group for the 30-Day Challenge

⭐️ Complete the Challenge, and you will receive a certificate (by email) from the Chicken Tricks Academy proclaiming that you have obtained the HIGHLY sort after title of Novice Chicken Trick Trainer! 😁🐓

Woo hoo! 🥳 🎉 ✨

Are you in?

17/08/2022

Which trick should you teach your chicken first? ⭐🐓

It is much easier to build on behaviors that your chicken already does rather than trying to teach them something completely new.

Watch your chicken over the next few days and see if there is anything they do that might form the beginning of a new trick. 🧐 🐓

For example, Dancer loves to scratch. So it was easy to turn her scratching into a dance (hence her name).

Gerdy loves to peck things, so I'm teaching her to peck a bell. Later on, we will work on playing (pecking) a toy piano and other pecking tricks.

Peepy is a fantastic flyer. She loves flying up on things. So I started by teaching her to fly to my knee while sitting down. I then taught her to fly to my arm.

Most chickens have their favorite things to do, and it's easier to use these as a starting point for tricks because your chicken will already be keen to do it. 🤩🐓

⭐ Coming soon... a step-by-step guide on how to teach your chickens tricks. 🐓

28/07/2022

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01/07/2022

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25/06/2022

🤣 So clever! 🐕 🐓

22/06/2022

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24/05/2022

TRAINING MORE THAN ONE CHICKEN 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

When you first start training your chickens, it is best to train just ONE at a time.

They will all want to get involved, and it can be confusing for the chickens, and you, to try and train several chickens together.

It is better to start by training each chicken separately to do the trick well before working with several chickens together.

Have a separate area where you can work with just one chicken. Being on one side of a fence works well so that your student chicken can still see their friends.

But you might find that you have an audience lined up to watch what you two are doing 😁

⭐ Coming soon... a step-by-step guide on how to teach your chickens tricks. 🐓

13/05/2022

I had heard that "when you can train a chicken, you can train just about anything," so I headed off to a 'Chicken Training Camp' 🤩 🐓 These are some of the things I learned.

https://chickentricks101.com/chicken-training-camp/

I had heard that "when you can train a chicken, you can train just about anything," so I headed off to a 'Chicken Training Camp'

10/05/2022

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