Training Chickens Makes for Better Dog Trainers! - training a dog
Training Chickens Makes for Better Dog Trainers!
J9's K9s trainer, Stephanie, spends a week training a chicken and sharpens her dog training skills in the process! Janine trained chickens too, in 2004!
Dog Training Tutorial: Building Eye Contact & Attention! - training a dog
Dog Training Tutorial: Building Eye Contact & Attention!
Teaching a dog to make eye contact is extremely useful with a variety of applications. It is a good habit to encourage especially in puppies who often have the tendency to be rambunctious, particularly in the presence of delicious food/treats. Use this exercise to help build their focus & attention while demonstrating that rewards in their environment are unlocked through you. Ideally, we should always establish eye contact before giving them any obedience cue. This is also a great exercise for anybody that is new to clicker training. It can be a little challenging at first to time your clicks and deliver the food rewards perfectly, so this is a good place to start and develop your skill. Be sure to repeat each step outlined in this video several times before raising the criteria and moving on to the next one. Some dogs are more persistent and require extra patience before they start to offer eye contact. This is where clicker training is awesome because it allows us to mark the exact millisecond when the desired behavior happens thus making it very easy for the dog to understand & learn. Always use high-value food rewards & always reward after each click so that it does not lose value. Finally, food rewards should be understood as a stepping stone to teaching something. This means that eventually, there is no need to reward your dog with food every time as they learn to offer the behavior by default. Thank you for watching!
Actually chickens are very bright and certainly not dumb, having been a breeder for a while now seeing things such as Roosters using trickery to lure in hens they like by giving calls for food when there's no food at all just to trick the hen and lure her in
ReplyDeletethis is amazing. oh my goodness its so sweet.
ReplyDeleteIt's their regular chicken food.
ReplyDeleteWhat is in the cup for a treat?
ReplyDeleteThe music was distracting. Chickens have trained the humans very well
ReplyDeleteYou might want to look up Terry Ryan of Legacy Canine Training. She offers chicken training workshops around the world. She initially worked with Bob Bailey, the man whose seminars I originally attended.
ReplyDeleteThis work was conducted as part of a seminar. We worked with the birds several times a day. It was probably several hundred repetitions for the birds to learn what we wanted -- mostly because, since they move so fast, your human timing has to be really, really good. If you click at the wrong moment (a manner of micro-seconds), you accidentally reinforce a movement you don't really want. Then it takes that many more repetitions where your timing is better to fix it. It's pretty fun!
ReplyDeleteHey, I recently had the idea of clicker training my two chickens so decided to look up any vids on YouTube, and found yours!
ReplyDeleteMy girls are 9 years old (still healthy and active)...just as a comparison, how many repetitions did it take for the hens in the video to pick it up? And were they trained daily? I could only do a few days a week as I don't live at home.
Appreciate any help :D
Hello I would like to know how to start an experience of training a chicken you could provide me with a support'm from Brazil I am a great admire this ability is impressive. Before I tried to speak but not to purchase a DVD is sent to Brazil. I would appreciate if you could spend some of your knowledge. titocastilhos@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteEl sonido es un clicker. Es un reforzador condicionado que permite que el pollo sabe su comportamiento fue correcto y será recompensado. "El adiestramiento con clicker" es una forma de condicionamiento operante. Los pollos se les enseñó a reconocer el color y el color y formas. Si usted busca "adiestramiento con el clicker" encontrará gran cantidad de información. También pruebe a mirar a Bob Bailey y Marian y Karen Pryor.
ReplyDeleteNot clicking twice, but there was a room full of people all working at once, so you hear a ton of clicking in the background.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that sound before each movement of the chicken???
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chickens instinctively recognize these colors or are trained for it?
chickens or recognize the figures are also trained to recognize them??
Do not know if I fully understand the questions
I am Latina and I had to use a translator!
que es ese sonido antes de cada movimiento del pollo???
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los pollos reconocen esos colores por instinto o son entrenados para ello??
los pollos reconocen las figuras o tambien son entrenados para reconocerlas????
No se si me entienda bien las preguntas
yo soy latina y tuve que utilizar traductor!!!
Why do you click twice?
ReplyDeleteThey believe that cause it's very convenient to think that hens are dumb while killing and eating them. But it's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of being able to suffer and this is why I don't eat animals anymore.
ReplyDeleteand people believe chickens are dumb which they may not be all that bright but not dumb.
ReplyDeletehow do you teach it to do thoughs tricks?
ReplyDeletewow thats amaising! how the heck did you train her to do that? or is it a her, im not sure??? thats so cool anyway great job. and another question wats his/her name? just wondering! :)
ReplyDeleteAWESOME!!
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteThank you- wonderful video. I loved the color and shape discrimination, gave me lots of ideas to work with my hen and other animals! Clicker training rocks!!! and is lots of fun too!!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, seems your chicken is smarter than my cat. It only took some moments to shape a new behavior, whereas it took days for my cat to do only one shaped behavior. Maybe it wasn't the cat maybe it was the trainer! The chicken seems like instant gratification for the trainer since it learns so fast and is eager to do the actions! Sigh, now I wish I had a chicken to train.
ReplyDeleteplease tell me how to do this i would love to know
ReplyDeleteexactly why i love them :D chickens are so smart!
ReplyDeletethis is so facinating,
ReplyDeletei am doing a year 12 biology experiment on animal behavious and i have a few questions about this as i was thinking of training a chicken for it.
firstly does it have to be a grown chicken i only want it to peck a target and i dont really have a place to keep a full grown one, will it work with a chick perhaps?
when you are training the chickens what are the main things you could record (eg. reaction time, amount of correct and incorrect responses etc)
what kind of treats do you use
ReplyDeleteand he is like afraid look me in the eyes
ReplyDeletevery good tutorial but i have a problem :( my dog i found it on the street and i took it home he is arroun 3-4 years old.this is the third training witch i try to teach my dog but he doesnt follow the reward he jump to eat it.what will help with this and which is the better way to train this dog?
ReplyDeleteHow long will it take to teach a 9yo dog to pay attention, without using a clicker?
ReplyDeleteWHY WONT MY PUPPY 'Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious' LOOK AT ME!
ReplyDeletewhy didn't you use her real name when filming this tutorial? because she already responds to Solea?
ReplyDeleteMy pup won't even pay attention when i teach him this :/
ReplyDeleteHi how old is your dog and how long have you had him for and if you don't mind me asking where did you get him
ReplyDeleteits clicker training look at some of his other videos and shows you why he uses it.
ReplyDeleteumm what is this clack sound you're doing before you give him the treat? do we have to do that?
ReplyDeleteUhh...I do not exist when my dog sees other dogs. Hes a super fast learner when we are alone but he loves other dogs more than his treats when were outside.
ReplyDeletelol at 3:05 it looks like the dog is checking him out xD and so cute! and helpful thanks!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, thank you!
ReplyDeleteNow my puppy Avenger knows his name <3
really helped
ReplyDeleteI have rescued a 1 year old German Shepard that was due to be euthanized the following day he is very smart comes most of the time when called but loses interest in 2 or 3 mins and loses interest in treats that he liked be4 HELP lol?
ReplyDeleteWere did you get your dog from?
ReplyDeleteYou are awesome! Thank you so much for making these videos! My Sweet little dog was better behaved when we adopted her than she is now - honeymoon over! ha. We're really getting the help we needed from you. Even she loves watching your videos and seems to know she's up for a lot of treats when we finish watching each of them.
ReplyDeletegood idea!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy does your closing music make me want to do a slow cabbage patch?
ReplyDeleteWhat if your dog makes eye contact but whines or barks because she knows a treat is coming and she wants it but she still is making eye contact while the whine or bark
ReplyDeletewhats the point of a clicker ?
ReplyDeleteUse a pen :)
ReplyDeletei thought that when you look at a dog in the eye and it starts to follow your every move that usually means that your trying to challenge it to defend its self leading to agressive action
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