Is it possible to litter train chickens?

[Weeg]

I think I got it! You would have got spend a lot of time with the chicken though, as soon as you notice them wanting to poop/urinate, put them in the box, they poop there, and then reward them with a treat. Then, they know what good behavior is, and maybe will try to keep doing it?

 

[Weeg]

I don't know!? Lol!

 

[Hei 20]

I wonder, if you scooped a bunch of poops into one section of the coop, and some how got the chicken to poop there e a few times, if they would recognize the poop spot.....

Try it. I can't try that because my rooster is an indoor rooster. LOL And he is the only poultry I have. I do have a cat, and I fight with my rooster all the time about not going by the kitty litter

 

[nuthatched]

I think not, chickens don't have control of their bowels like other things.

 

[Weeg]

I think not, chickens don't have control of their bowels like other things.

Hmm, this is interesting.. why is that?

 

[The Happster]

I imagine it isn't impossible.

The problem is that chickens don't think the same way as cats and dogs.
When we litter train them we're usually using their instinct not to soil their bedding. Cats and dogs like to be clean.
Chickens obviously poop overnight too.

 

[Hei 20]

I think I got it! You would have got spend a lot of time with the chicken though, as soon as you notice them wanting to poop/urinate, put them in the box, they poop there, and then reward them with a treat. Then, they know what good behavior is, and maybe will try to keep doing it?

Are you sure about that. it seems like they poop almost every 5 minutes. You're gonna get tired. LOL

 

[Weeg]

Although birds don't have the same kind of muscled sphincter that we do, which is meant to control when we choose to go, they do still have some muscles around theircloaca, which is their everything hole—eggs and excrement all come from the same place! ... Still, birds can feel when they need to poop.
Maybe if they can feel when they need to go, then they can run to the litter box in time to poop!

 

[Hei 20]

I think not, chickens don't have control of their bowels like other things.

They just don't care to hold it in. LOL

 

[Weeg]

I imagine it isn't impossible.

The problem is that chickens don't think the same way as cats and dogs.
When we litter train them we're usually using their instinct not to soil their bedding. Cats and dogs like to be clean.
Chickens obviously poop overnight too.

Yes, this is the biggest issue, chickens, like, to be dirty!