You can remove the harness, feed it again, and repeat it for a few days. Once your chicken is happier with the harness on, call them, offer special feed, and pet them. Keep an eye on them, and don’t let them hook on anything that may hurt them. Moreover, make sure to fit the harness as gently as you can without the lead. The worst thing you can do is choose an ill-fitting harness. Next, choose an appropriately-sized chicken harness. You can sit next to them, hold them, and apply gentle pressure to their body. To train them, you need to get your chicken comfortable with you. It helps to take your chicken to new places without bundling and wrapping them as you would a “wild” chicken. Walking a chicken on a harness is a particularly helpful trick. You can train your chickens to walk in a harness and lead, but you must ensure that it’s first comfortable with you. Which of these chicken tricks do you want to teach your flock? 1. Although there are various factors to consider before teaching your chickens some tricks, you can do it with the right amount of time and patience. There are many tricks chickens can learn to do, whether you want them to walk, talk, swim, or even hug you. So, are you ready to begin? Let’s start!ġ1 Chicken Tricks You Can Teach Your Chickens If you’re still new to chicken farming, it’s great to learn how chickens can be taught a lot of things if you put your mind to it. After all, they’re brilliant birds, even considering how tiny their brains are in proportion to their body. But training a chicken takes patience, consistency, and practice. They can learn to come when called, lay in a nesting box, swim, walk on a leash, stay off a porch, and even talk. Here’s what I found.Ĭan chickens do tricks? Chickens can be trained to do simple tricks to far more complex tasks when given positive reinforcement, such as a food reward. Curious, I began researching and discovered that chickens could indeed be taught many different tricks and skills. Seeing how Pete learned, I wondered if I could train Pete to do chicken tricks. By the end of the first week, he had learned to come up to my feet, and when I bent over, he would climb onto my extended hand so I could carry him away from the other chickens (since they bullied him) and feed him on his own. Within a day or two, he learned to recognize the sound of my voice.
I took pity on Pete and started calling him when I fed the chickens. My chicken could see some shadows, which made him jumpy, but other than that, he was quite blind and utterly helpless, and the other chickens didn’t want much to do with him. When I moved to a homestead of my own, I inherited a semi-blind chicken: a rooster named Cockeye Pete.
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