Two wonderful students tracked down a video from the past for me - my Level 2 OCBA training final test! This was in Hot Springs, AR, in the late 1990s. "Chicken Camp" was an incredible experience each time I went (all 3 levels), and I learned so much from Bob Bailey and Marian Breland Bailey (the person wearing the bobbing chicken on her head in the bottom of this video).
I trained "Sugar" (the white hen) to do a complex chain behaviour: to walk to the end of the table, knock off the blue bowling pin, and then the yellow bowling pin, then walk up the A-frame, down the other side, and roll a dowel, before getting her click. And I couldn't move an inch - I had to stay fixed in trainer position! But she did it - amazing what just one week of training can accomplish - and what fun!
I trained "Sugar" (the white hen) to do a complex chain behaviour: to walk to the end of the table, knock off the blue bowling pin, and then the yellow bowling pin, then walk up the A-frame, down the other side, and roll a dowel, before getting her click. And I couldn't move an inch - I had to stay fixed in trainer position! But she did it - amazing what just one week of training can accomplish - and what fun!
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