Organization for Reinforcement Contingencies with Animals

Recently, several of our ORCA students have been practicing their training skills with chickens! Training chickens is a fun way to sharpen your animal training skills.

This photo is from yesterday's training session. The students worked with several roosters and hens. The students and birds practiced target training, targeting through a tunnel, and reinforcement systems.

Thanks to Paula and Tangled Tails Ranch for providing the ORCA students with this opportunity!

We have had the privilege of hosting several guest speakers recently.

A couple of weeks ago, Emily Strong gave us an awesome presentation. We like to let the speaker choose to talk about whatever is on their mind.

Emily chose to talk about the importance of environmental enrichment. She gave us a deep-dive into what enrichment means to her, and the different strategies she uses in practice. We had a lot of good questions and conversations during the meeting.

Thank you so much Emily for sharing your thoughts and time with us!