To practice and strengthen my mechanical skills as a trainer, last week…I trained chickens!
That’s right. I flew to North Carolina to attend a three-day chicken camp at TeamWorks Dog Training. There, my students were Ellen – a white leghorn, and Jane – a Rhode Island red. I was tasked with teaching them using clicker training to do several behaviors: peck a drum five times in a row, discriminate a red squishy toy from other colors, and to weave through three cones. [Read more…] about Lessons Learned From Chicken Camp