Training chickens? That sounds pretty neat. I’m anxious to get started with this survival living so I can raise some chickens. {Living in the city now - where the jobs we need are ;(} I’ve trained one of my cats to do tricks - she can beg, sit, stay, fetch (when she wants to), speak, touch with right or left paw, do high 5, shake, and lots more. She’s a very willing student - none of my others stick around long enough to learn, but Cotton follows me around all day waiting for training time.
>>>She’s a very willing student - none of my others stick around long enough to learn, but Cotton follows me around all day waiting for training time.
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It is amazing how certain animals tend to be so receptive to training... (LOL plus your patience in teaching Cotton)
We have a Rat Terrier who we describe as ‘vocally predisposed’ For a treat, he quickly picked up on and started mimicking our saying ‘Yum Yum’ He does it very deliberately, and with a licking of his chops - first left, then right with a ‘Yum’ in between. He even responds appropriately when you say ‘What?’ and ‘Louder, I can’t hear you’ Of course we have even had him tell people on the phone what he wants too.
Jake is his name. When we went to Florida to pick up Christi, we set him up with the run of the kitchen, plenty of puppy pads, 2 waterers full (3 gal. each) and more food than we thought he could possibly eat. Upon returning 5 days later, he had barely eaten or drunk anything. So we were worried about leaving him alone again.
Then, when we had to go to Florida again for the adoption, we decided to put him along with our Great Dane in a kennel. This was a really nice kennel, air conditioned, his bed was on a mini trampoline so they didn’t have to lie on the floor, and the owner pampers all the dogs.
Jake didn’t do very well, sat in the middle of his trampoline all the time and calling to check on him, even talking to him on the phone didn’t help. Again he barely ate or drank.
When we got back, we picked him up and when we got in the car, as though he had spent the whole time we were gone thinking what to say, he put his head up like a wolf howling and ‘told’ us what he wanted..... Very clear, very deliberate - Home - Home - Home. He kept repeating it all the way home...
Even now, when he hears my wife get home from work, he jumps up and announces - ‘Home - Home - Home’.
Your Cotton sure seems to be a receptive student too... You will do very well when you can have your ‘critters’ when you start your survival living... LOL Should we be calling you Ellie Mae (Like -out thar in them Hills of Beverly).
OK, just 8 AM and already I am being bad... Sorry.