What treats should I use in clicker training, is a question I get asked often. In this blog I give more than 30 ideas what you can use as food reinforcer in clicker training your horse.
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Horse owners (I call them horse trainers) who use food reinforcers are frequently confronted with a lot of misunderstanding about how treats or rewards can be effectively used as reinforcers. Some people don\’t realize that you can use treats to your benefit: to help you train your horse. Common beliefs I asked my Facebook friends
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Treats, or food reinforcers, can be used in training very effectively. Three good reasons to use them are: Train wanted behaviour quickly Animals are very motivated to earn their click and rewards. Therefor you can fade out the reinforcer and still get the behaviour. That is called a variable reward schedule. It\’s very powerful! It
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In this series I will be sharing 6 interesting facts I didn\’t know about when I started using positive reinforcement in training animals. This is part 4. Some of these are common misunderstandings people have about clicker training while others are facts most equestrians don\’t know at all. The goal of this blog is to
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In this series I will be sharing 6 interesting facts I didn\’t know about when I started using positive reinforcement in training animals. This is part 1. Some of these are common misunderstandings people have about clicker training while others are facts most equestrians don\’t know at all. The goal of this blog is to
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I mean reinforcer. Not \’reward\’. It just sounded better. đ There is a big difference, let\’s take a look at the definitions: Reward noun A thing given in recognition of one\’s service, effort, or achievement. \”the holiday was a reward for 40 years\’ service with the company\” Synonyms: Recompense, prize, award, honor, decoration, bonus, premium, bounty, present, gift, payment; Informal – payoff, perk; Formal – perquisite \”a reward for its
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Here is the answer to the question \’When can I stop using food in clicker training?\’
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The statement that a horse only works for \’the treat\’ and \’not for you\’ is one that I have heard many times. In fact this is one of the most common arguments used by people who use negative reinforcement to train their horses.  What motivates the horse: you or the food I also prefer to think in terms of \’motivation\’
Only recently I heard about this persistent myth. It is a myth that is frequently shared amongst dog trainers and in the marine mammal world. The idea behind this myth is that predators are used to \’working hard\’ in order to get food while prey animals (herbivores), like horses, don\’t have to work for their food. \’The most valuable thing
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All positive reinforcement trainers have heard people say: \’Training horses with food rewards makes them pushy\’. Some people even state \’dangerous\’ instead of pushy. Maybe you have said it yourself before you started using positive reinforcement (+R) to train your horse. You get what you reinforce In +R training you use a reward that reinforces the behaviour
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