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ChookieG
Crowing
That was an enlightening read and thank you for weighing in. Do you think the turkeys "learn" to be quiet or did the noisy ones got eaten so the turkeys evolved to be quiet through natural selection? I think it's an automatic reflex that can't be trained away. My turkeys gobble whenever someone claps hands, slams a door, starts an air compressor, passes gas, anything. If you could figure out how to "teach" a bird to be quiet I bet you could make a lot of money.
If you can toilet train a chicken, I'm guessing it can be done.. You can certainly train a roo to crow more often though.. which I stupidly did unintentionally... till it was too late... it started when I will go over to the run and throw scratch to them whenever my roo crowed thinking it would shut him up... but he quickly associated crowing with scratchies! The rest is history!
Like I said.. stupid!