Can a chicken play a guitar?

Answer 1

Of course, a chicken can be trained to play a guitar. It was a common to see trained chickens performing tasks at carnivals and circuses in prior eras. In fact, a chicken can be easily taught to perform any number of tasks. A Rhode Island Red hen was trained to play guitar using the response/reward technique. The chicken was shown the strings of the guitar being plucked and a kernel of corn was offered when the notes sounded. This action was repeated until the chicken associated the sound and action with the reward. The chicken did attempt to associate the reward with the human trainer, so care was taken to provide the reward only when the guitar strings were plucked. The chicken, which instinctively scratches for food, soon made attempts to scratch the strings. The entire training process took one hour and patience was required to demonstrate the reward/response causal effect to the chicken.

To see a video of this chicken playing guitar, go to YouTube and enter 'chicken plays guitar' in the search window or follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnN3-Ujifl0