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Click with Your Chick: A Complete Chicken Training Course Using the Clicker (CompanionHouse Books) Train Hens to Come When Called, Perch on Your Arm, Do Tricks, and More, with Positive Reinforcement
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About Click With Your Chick: A Complete Chicken Training
Product Description Yes, you can train your chickens! Positive reinforcement method utilizes a clicker to train your chickens Step-by-step instructions to success, from getting your chicken's attention to crate training Practice cues like going to the coop, perching on your arm, coming when called, performing tricks, and more Bond with your flock by learning how to understand and connect with your chickens Enrich your hens' minds with puzzles, buried snacks, obstacle courses, coop swings, and more Positive-reinforcement training isn't just for dogs! Click with Your Chick will help you build a special rapport with your chickens in ways you never thought possible—and help you to effectively manage your flock. Understand how chickens learn, think, and behave so you can use clicker-training techniques to house-train and crate-train your chicken, and even teach her to perform tricks that will impress your friends and family! Author and animal trainer Giene Keyes has a passion for positive training methods to establish a trusting and happy relationship between you and your chicken. An animal behavior specialist, Giene has spent decades teaching pets good manners. Inside this book, she will teach you how to understand, connect, and bond with your chicken. Chickens have become popular as pets and egg providers, and this book explains how to engage with them on a positive level. You'll find a step-by-step effective training program to get domesticated chickens to follow a variety of commands using operant conditioning, luring, and positive training methods. Filled with insight, enrichment ideas, step-by-step instructions, and adorable photos (many of Giene's own chickens), this is an enjoyable read for any chicken enthusiast or backyard chicken farmer. Learn how to understand and connect with your pet chickens—and discover they can do anything a dog can do if trained correctly—with Click with Your Chick! "Giene Keyes proves that you can teach a chicken to do anything you can teach a dog to do, from crate training to paying attention. I love how she shows us that bonding with a chicken is possible—you won't look at chickens the same way after reading this book!"—Deb Compton, award-winning creative groomer and owner, In the Dogz House "What I love is [that] by showing how trainable chickens are, it helps destroy the myth that they are 'JUST chickens'..."—Twain Lockhart, poultry expert/consultant Review I get quite a few notices about new books that are available and Click With Your Chick certainly caught my attention. The book is written by Giene Keyes, an animal behaviourist and 4-H leader, published by Fox Chapel Publishing, and available online through Amazon. It costs about $12. The book is a guide to training chickens to respond to commands. "Chickens are smarter than you think," says the book's promo material. "Your chicken can do anything a dog can do if you train it right! Hens and roosters can be ordered go to the coop, perch on your arm, come when called, and generally respond and behave as you wish. This book presents an effective training program to get domesticated chickens to follow a variety of commands. "Amaze your friends as your birds perform tricks like circling a cone, turning around, sitting down, and recognizing colors and patterns. Inside Click with Your Chick: Understand and connect with your chickens to effectively manage your flock; Clicker-train your chickens to follow fun and practical commands; Discover how a chicken thinks and socializes, and how to make that knowledge work in your favour; Learn how to use operant conditioning, luring, and positive training methods on hens and roosters; and, Gain insight for training any animal by improving observation skills and timing." ADVERTISEMENT Who knew chickens had so much training potential? Aside from being fun, is there a practical side to this? Yes. You have a whole year to get your flock trained and next July you can amaze thousands at Ag in Motion wit
