Chicken Behaviour & Training & Farm Animal Behaviour
Results and success with animals you didn’t expect – Chicken Training
Chicken Training – Australian chicken training workshops. One, two, or three day workshops with hens. Training workshops build skills for dog or animals trainers.
Behaviour consults and training for farm and livestock species: cows, goats, sheep and poultry (chickens, geese, ducks). The initial consultation takes anywhere up to 2 hours which will include advice and practical training, a full written behaviour report, management and training programs. Email and telephone support is available.
Contact for pricing.
Goat Training
- Handling and husbandry behaviours: voluntary hoof trims, body handling, eye and ear medication application, stand for examination.
- Recalls
- Evacuation preparedness – emergency recall and trailer loading
- Trailer loading or crate loading
- Harness loading, walking on harness, walking with you. Voluntary walking in the show ring.
- Agility and obstacles, tricks (shake, weave poles, target training, jumps, station, carry objects).
- Problem solving aggression, fears and handling problems.
Training For Cattle
Typically suited for hobby farm cows, animal sanctuaries, small herds and show animals
- Handling and husbandry behaviours: voluntary hoof trims, body handling, eye and ear medication application, stand for examination, grooming, injection and oral medication application low stress.
- Recalls
- Evacuation preparedness – emergency recall and trailer loading
- Trailer loading or crate loading
- Voluntary halter loading, walking on halter with you, voluntary show ring behaviours.
- Agility and tricks – shake, back up, target & station training
- Problem solving aggression, fears and handling problems
Alpaca & Llama Training
- Handling and husbandry behaviours: voluntary hoof trims, body handling, eye and ear medication application, stand for examination.
- Recalls
- Evacuation preparedness – emergency recall and trailer loading
- Trailer loading
- Desensitisation to shearing equipment
Sheep Training
Typically suited for hobby farm cows, animal sanctuaries, small herds and show animals
- Handling and husbandry behaviours: voluntary hoof trims, body handling, eye and ear medication application, stand for examination, grooming, injection and oral medication application low stress
- Recalls
- Evacuation preparedness – emergency recall and trailer loading
- Trailer loading or crate loading
- Voluntary halter/harness loading, walking on halter with you, voluntary show ring behaviours
- Agility and tricks – shake, back up, target training, station training
- Problem solving aggression, fears and handling problems
Chicken Training
For ducks, chickens, turkeys, quail and guinea fowl
We are serious about their safety – be evacuation prepared.
- Recall and crate loading – make sure they can recall in an emergency and load into carriers
- Agility, obstacles and tricks – you can teach these behaviours for their mental enrichment and your skill building.
- Harness training
- Rooster aggression reduction (towards people)
- Assistance in training for research – teaching hens tasks
Ask us about our chicken training workshops – for dog trainers, horse trainers, zoo trainers – to build your mechanical skills. We work with industry and university groups to run chicken training workshops – agriculture and ethics & welfare students may benefit.
