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
Giene Keyes is a certified professional dog trainer and the owner of Dog Face, an award-winning dog training school in Southern Wisconsin. Giene has spent decades teaching pets good manners. An animal behavior specialist, AKC Canine Good Citizen program evaluator, and 4-H judge, she works with veterinarians, rescue groups, and shelters evaluating dogs for adoption, developing aggression management programs, and educating staff. Giene provides behavior consultations for service dog organizations and rescue groups, leads seminars on animal training and team building, and writes for pet magazines about animal training.
