Training Your Chickens to Play Instruments

This is a fun activity to do with your chickens. It is very simple and soon your chickens will be playing an instrument. I am using a glockenspiel for this instructable, but drums, pianos, and xylophones work too. Enjoy! 😊

for this project you will need:

1. your chickens favorite treats
2. Live chickens
3. an instrument
4. and maybe a few chicken helpers

Grab a chicken and show it the instrument. Take it and put its beak against the instrument so it makes a noise. Then give your chicken a treat.

Continue that process. After each peck let your chicken look at the instrument.

Soon your chicken will get what you are trying to show them. They will start pecking the instrument so they will get a treat.

If this does not work I recommend drawing little dots or lines on the instrument so your chicken will peck at those. Give it a treat when it pecks them.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to train a chicken to play a musical instrument. Here is a video on chickens playing the glockenspiel.