Can a chicken be house trained?

[14 chickens & counting]

Just wondering........Can a chicken be house trained?

 

[cabincrazyone]

I know they can hold it a long time when they're brooding .... But that's a message that's built in.

Tiny tiny brains.

 

[Fred's Hens]

The training period is sooooo messy with all that chicken poop in the living room.

 

[14 chickens & counting]

Fred's Hens :

The training period is sooooo messy with all that chicken poop in the living room.

I know right!!!!

I thought I had heard it somewhere before.​

 

[TrystInn]

If you're asking if they can be litter-trained or something similar, the odds are quite against it. They are incontinent, having no sphincter muscle.

 

[ARose4Heaven]

I have personal, first-hand knowledge. NO, chickens can NOT be housebroken. The nasty, sneaky, filthy white beast that lurked about my mother's kitchen was definitely NOT housebroken. It was trained on where to lay the egg...but never anything else. ISH-DA!!!!!

 

[Imp]

There's a whole thread on it

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=125001

Imp

 

[BitsyB]

I've heard there are chicken diapers...

Personally I think it'd be easier to clean up a poop from the floor rather than figure out how to get a chicken to wear a diaper!

 

[14 chickens & counting]

Thanks everybody for the post....I didn't THINK they could....and I had seen the diapers....but they are so cute....would have been nice.