Why does this chicken spin?

This video illustrates a few different points:

1. We can and do unintentionally teach our animals things all the time. In this video I teach this hen to spin, but only realise this after I watch back the training videos.

2. Watching yourself training, back on video is a great way to help yourself improve as a teacher and learn more about your self as a trainer.

3. Don't blame the animal if they are not doing what you are trying to teach them to do. It could be YOU, yes YOU who is NOT actually teaching the animal what you think you are teaching the animal. The animal most probably is NOT trying to be funny, stubborn, stupid, dominant etc... 

4. Probably a lot of other things to be learnt from that clip but I cant remember what they are now. 

(My timing is a little early with some of the clicks but that was on purpose lol, seriously, I was clicking early to actively to stop clicking late)

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