What can you do with a llama?

[Cyngbaeld]

Gayle I know you are on dial up, but you'll enjoy these.

[sunshine]

Okay, that's amazing. I'd more like to see how she actually taught him to do all that. Heck, I can't even teach my dog.

[Cyngbaeld]

I'm going to start training the goats to come when I ring a bell. Figured if I ring and toss out corn that pretty soon they'll start running to the house when they hear the ringing. Save me some walking.

[sunshine]

I expect that will work.

Whenever I bring home new animals, first thing I do is teach them to come to the sound of my voice. I call the calves, even though they are already eating, so that they associate my voice with getting their food. Now that they are yearlings, I can call them from way across the field, and they both come running.

Same with the goats. Now I tell them to get to their coops, and they all start for the barn and pretty much have themselves sorted when I get there.

We one time had a heifer that I would feed over the fence. Problem was, she'd come over and turn her bucket over, and I'd have to go around and upright it again. Finally I started telling her, you want feed, set it back up. DH was amazed first time he saw me tell her to set her bucket back up and she did. lol.

The problem with my dog is she is a half-grown puppy. A teenager.

[Cyngbaeld]

My goats will come if they feel like bothering. I haven't been feeding them except on the stand, but now I have so many that are pg but not milking that I want to start feeding them. I need to get more organized. Got to get collars on the young ones too. I have a box of collars in the storage trailer, need to find them. Sigh.

[Valerie]

My chickens will follow me anywhere if I say the word raisins. We trained them to it from when they were little and it's been working like a charm for years. The old ones taught the new ones this year.

[Cyngbaeld]

That's cute, Val.
I can get them to follow with a white bucket, but that doesn't help when they are off in the woods and can't see me.

[sunshine]

Kim, you gotta learn how to yall.

[Cyngbaeld]

LOL, I do, and they don't care. They're more interested in eating. Then too, I yell at the dogs and sometimes at the cat and occasionally for the birds and I'd rather the goats didn't come running then. Especially if I'm trying to feed Baby Blue Goose who isn't in the general poultry yard, but hangs out in the goat area. He likes to come into the milking shed while I'm milking if I don't feed him first before the goats show up. They push him away from his food and aren't nice about it. So training them to come for a bell would be more specific for goats than just hearing me yell.

[Valerie]

Just finally got to watch the videos. He's so cute! I bet all that stuff comes in handy when they have to do routine maintenance on him.

[sunshine]

I can't believe I said "yall" instead of "yell."
Well, you knew what I meant.
So, don't you think the goose will learn to come when you ring that bell for the goats?
My different types of animals have different "yells," but when they hear me calling one, they all show up because they know it's going to be time to eat.

[Valerie]

That's the thing, they all know if Mama comes out food might materialize!