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Bailey & Bailey Chicken Camps
in Arkansas

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Objectives: In this workshop, you will learn to apply the fundamentals of clicker training (positive reinforcement training using a clicker as a secondary reinforcer).  Your chicken will be an excellent trainer - you  will be training an animal with lightening-fast reflexes and a very low tolerance for an insufficient rate of reinforcement.  The other advantage of working with a chicken is that the emotional dialogue (like the one that exists between dog and human) is not a factor in training.  Chickens do what works for them.  If you don't set achievable criteria, and reinforce them at a high enough rate, they will simply fly to another trainer's table.  The goal of the workshop is to improve your timing, criteria, and rate of reinforcement and to sharpen your clicker skills.  

Our training goals for this weekend workshop will be:

• Chicken handling
• Manipulation and use of the feeder-cup/clicker
• Planning a training session and recording training data
• Teaching a basic shape or color discrimination behavior
• (More advanced tasks will be given for repeat campers)

You will find this clicker training experience can be applied to other types of dog training, including all types of dog sports as well as service dog work.

Prerequisites: Participants MUST have previous experience with clicker training.  It is strongly recommended that non-staff participants take either the Teamworks Clicker Basics Class, or its equivalent before Chicken Camp.  Recommended reading material before camp: Clicker Training for Dogs by Karen Pryor and Excel-erated Learning by Pam Reid.

This workshop will held indoors using socialized chickens.  Chickens will be treated humanely and (no matter how the workshop goes for participants) chickens will not be served for lunch at the end of the workshop.  All kidding aside, these chickens will remain pet chickens of the owner, Michele Godlevski.  Sorry - for obvious reasons, no dogs will be allowed at Teamworks Chicken Camp.

This camp is held with Bob Bailey's "blessings".  Please don't hesitate to go visit Bob in Arkansas for one of his fantastic camps.  This Teamworks camp will not be as extensive as the five-day workshops Bob offers. 
We merely hope to offer a taste of the Arkansas Chicken Camps...
in tribute to Bob's & Marian's inspirational training.

Workshop Details

January 6th, 7th & 8th 2007     This date cancelled.

Can be scheduled with a minimum of 6 students. Please call Michele for details.  919-696-5558.

Clicker Training for Dogs by Karen Pryor

$240 per participant
$75 per auditor

Friday Evening:  Chicken handling, feeder-cup/clicker use, and training journal basics.

Saturday:  Basic discrimination & non-discreet behavior - Several cycles of 1) planning sessions,
2) timed training sessions, 3) discussion session

Sunday morning:  Basic discrimination & non-discreet behavior - Several cycles of 1) planning sessions, 2) timed training sessions, 3) discussion session

Sunday afternoon:  Behavior demonstrations and wrap-up discussions

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