#HYPNOTIZE CHICKEN HOW TO#

(Editor's Note: A third technique, discovered buried in the files of The Old Farmer's Almanac, is the Chalk Line Method. Lightly massage the bird's sternum, using the slightly spread thumb and index finger of one hand to do the stroking. It may be necessary to use a book, purse, or other item to keep the bird from rolling onto its side. The second technique is the Sternum Stroke Method. Keep the finger in a line parallel to the beak. To hypnotize the bird, use one finger of the free hand, moving the finger back and forth in front of the bird's beak from its tip (without touching it) to a point that is about four inches from the beak. Place the bird on its side with a wing under its body and hold it down gently. The Oscillating Finger Method is probably the easier of the two. White shows her audiences two methods of hypnotizing chickens. But after they see me demonstrate how it's done, they go home and try it themselves.'Дr. She points out that 'some farmers are still surprised that a person can hypnotize chickens.

#HYPNOTIZE CHICKEN HOW TO#

'When he taught me, I thought everyone knew how to hypnotize chickens.' She was wrong. Doris White, a Bernardsville, New Jersey, chicken farmer who is also professor of elementary education at William Paterson College and a chicken hypnotism instructor. 'I've been hypnotizing chickens since I was nine, when the county 4-H agent in Milwaukee showed me how,' says Dr.

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