I know some of you are Doubting Thomases about training a chicken.
So here are 12 photos in a series which should convince you it IS possible.
Aretha is my performing chicken. On cue she will Ring The Bell.
She does not get a treat if she rings the bell without a cue so she has,
in fact, learned to respond to the verbal cue,
not just the visual presence of the bell.
Chicken Clicker-Training
Am I the only one who remembers a chicken in a box that plays a piano
at the county fair? Deposit a nickel, a light comes on, the chicken
pecks a "tune" on the piano, and then corn is dispensed to the chicken.
C'mon, someone remembers this.
Or for even MORE about the chickens
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Wallpaper: Aretha's Feathers.
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The poop on this page was last scooped on: 7/16/2010
