Chicken Bead Puzzle: How Fuzzy Uses a Baby Toy to Solve Problems 🐥

Beads, maaaan, beads! Fuzzy uses a baby toy to solve a problem. I taught each <br />of my four pet chickens to do unique things in exchange for a treat. Please <br />view my other videos. More vids coming soon.<br />She learned by trial and error that she must slide all of the beads off the <br />edge for a reward. Watch how she moves her beak on one side or the other of <br />the beads to try to move them. She also tries to tap at the whole toy with <br />her beak to try to shake the beads in. She wants to try other things to try <br />to get them in, but she learns that she must be precise with it. She's not <br />perfect, but she can learn. The last bead is the most difficult for her to <br />move. Chickens get distracted sometimes, but they have a surprisingly long <br />attention span which is why I'm able to teach them so many different complex <br />tasks. It also helps that they are highly motivated (unlike cats) to do <br />things for a reward. Since my chickens are so tame, they also seem to have a <br />little bit of a need to please, like a dog, which is why I am able to <br />encourage them to continue doing a task even if they start to feel bored or <br />distracted. This is an important trait in an animal who you expect to work <br />with on a somewhat mutual level in order to train it.<br />I think their attention spans are longer than the average house cat (I have a <br />cat). To get her attention, I use hand gestures and vocal cues which chickens <br />(my chickens anyway) are very responsive to, like dogs. In some ways, <br />chickens are similar to dogs, in other ways they aren't like dogs at all. But <br />I'd say they are much more similar to dogs than they are cats in terms of <br />their ability to interact with a human on a mutual and highly responsive <br />level.