Comments on: Bob Bailey and Animal Training

By: Fitness Trainer Ratings

Fitness Trainer Ratings — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:50:17 +0000

I anticipate your point about accomplishing lots of training with lots
of animals is absolutely important. A lot of bodies tend to stick with
one species, but I apprentice so abounding altered things alive with my
dogs and horse, which alteration over to the added species.

By: Mary Hunter

Mary Hunter — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:50:35 +0000

Hi Jenny,

Sorry that I didn't provide more background on the video. I know there is a lot of extra clicking going on in the background, which makes it kind of hard to follow.

This is a discrimination problem Bob Bailey often uses in his workshops. The original training isn't shown, just the final product.

The bird is trained to do two behaviors. The cue for each behavior is the color of the plastic cones.

walk in a circle around red cones

walk in a figure-8 around yellow cones.

She clicks and feeds twice in the clip.

She clicks and feeds at 35 seconds into the clip for the bird walking two laps around the cones.

She clicks and feeds a second time at about 1:27 for the bird walking 2 figure-eights around the yellow cones.

Does that things make a little more sense? Let me know if it does or not.

Mary

By: Jenny Haskins

Jenny Haskins — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:57:04 +0000

I watched the chicken video.

I couldn't see what was being clicked OTR rewarded. nd could see how of why the4 yellow cone bird 'graduated'.

could you please explain?

By: Mary Hunter

Mary Hunter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:24:07 +0000

I would love to have some chickens.

Sadly, my father has said absolutely no.

But he does have a point, since we live in the city.

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By: Emma&Star

Emma&Star — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:46 +0000

I love that chicken video it is so cool! I've always known chickens are much smarter than most people believe they are. I must have a go at training one of mine at some point, I'd love to have a go with my Guinea pigs too. I have sheep, which although I don't clicker train because I'd have to separate them, I do use positive reinforcement in the form of ginger biscuits which works very well, they are incredibly tame and offer a lot of behaviour which could be captured with clicker.

I think your point about doing lots of training with lots of animals is really important. A lot of people tend to stick with one species, but I learn so many different things working with my dogs and horse, which transfer over to the other species. Quite often working with one will give me a lightbulb moment about something else. Reading about training is good, but no substitute for the experience of actually doing it.