Poultry In Motion
Become a better trainer by training a chicken! The process is an adventure and revelation.
Training a chicken is a stretch and a fantastic boost to your mechanical skills. Chickens are faster than the average dog so your timing and coordination skills are quickly improved. Dog trainers are amazed at how much they learn from their work with chickens!
WHY SHOULD DOG TRAINERS TRAIN CHICKENS? Because there is no baggage associated with chickens!
Trainer’s are not “bonded” to their chickens. Chickens do not have big brown eyes. Trainers do not have bad (or good!) chicken training habits because they’ve never trained a chicken before, thus avoiding the baggage often taken to dog training workshops. You will not be showing your chickens at the next performance event, nor will you be taking them home, so there is no pressure on what will happen in the future. You probably do not have a library full of chicken training books and DVD's to influence you, much less televisions shows on chicken training.
Chickens will freeze or fly away if they don’t like the way you are training them. Unlike dogs, you will know immediately if you are taking advantage of a chicken or pushing too hard too fast. Chickens don’t give their trainers a second chances as often as our dogs do.
Read what Don Hanson, former president of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, has to say about chicken training.
Here's how it works!
The hands-on chicken portion of the course will consist of many short (5-10 minute) training sessions throughout the day. You will participate in observation exercises, use of an ethogram and you will learn about capturing behavior. Systematic desensitization, criteria definition and selection, latency (limited hold) will be discussed. You will also be working with shaping, discrimination, extinction, coaching skills, constructive critiquing, lateral thinking and problem solving.
We will provide you everything you need for this experience.
IMPORTANT!
Please leave your dogs at home. Legacy does not have crating or boarding facilities and our parking lot has no shade. It is not appropriate to leave your dog in the your car in our parking lot during the workshop. Although we are primarily a dog training business, not all of our chicken training clients are 'dog people'.
Our workshops are presented in a relaxed atmosphere. Plan on having a good time! There will be several breaks in the morning and afternoon and a 60-minute break for lunch. A light sandwich lunch will be provided. Coffee, tea, pop, and light snacks will be available all day. We accommodate only meat and non-meat meal options.
Workshop hours are 9:00 AM to 4:15 PM
Poultry In Motion
SEPTEMBER 2, 2012 Register here
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TESTIMONIAL: Diana Limoge
"After being exposed to caveman mentality methods, this course moved me into the 21st century and the future of training techniques."
Testimonial: Robyn Walters, Boise, ID
"Training at Legacy is an absolute blast!! What I learned will help me to be a better trainer for people and dogs. Terry is great and offers what you need to succeed."
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“There is no substitute for learning from Bob (Bailey) but if Sweden is out of the question for you, you can learn to train chickens (which sharpens mechanical skills like nothing else can) with Terry Ryan at Legacy Canine in Sequim, Wash. (legacycanine.com)"
KAY ELLIOT
BARK magazine, NOV/DEC 2010
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TESTIMONIAL
"I would never have believed I could learn so much from a chicken. Transferring the techniques learned with chickens to dogs was easy as the dog was even more responsive to us than the chicken."
Brenda Lively with chicken - JUL 2010
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Students work with chickens.
Students prepare to meet their chickens
for the first time.
Testimonial: MYRIAM FERNANDEZ LORCA and EVA NAVARRO MARTINEZ, Madrid, Spain
"Amazing. We have learnt a different way for coaching people and training dogs. We bring to Spain a lot of new ideas. Thank you so much for this great experience!"
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Testimonial: KATERINA PAVLAKIS, London, England
"Coming to Legacy has been eye-opening, inspiring and fun. The best foundation possible for a future in coaching and training - dogs, people, and other critters."
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