litter boxed trained chickens????

[scrapmom5]

I was surfing the net and found a lady who has a rooster that is litter box trained.

http://www.mypetchicken.com/Frizzle_th-X109.aspx

After I stopped laughing and went out to play with my chickens I started wondering how this can be done. Can I just put a kitty litter box filled with shavings out in my hen house and train my chickens to do their business in the box and leave the rest of the run/house alone? It would really make mukking the hen house a piece of cake.

Have any of you tried this?

How would one go about doing this?

What are your thoughts on the subject?

 

[WriterofWords]

I don't see why you couldn't train them, but you'd have to start with young ones I imagine. One of my cats is toilet trained.

 

[MrsChickendad]

I'd bet you could clicker train it. Only problem would be the litter, you couldn't use regular litter cause it would look edible to a chicken.

 

[pvc coop]

Put the feed on top of the toilet, that way you have them pointing in the right direction.

 

[missa28]

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Thats too good lol

 

[kbarrett]

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[JennsPeeps]

A friend of mine swears that her hubbie used to have a chicken that pecked on the door when she had to defecate.

My response was, "what, like every 15 minutes?!?"

 

[Calebs Acre]

OMG....what a great photo and response!! That is priceless!!

 

[chickendadma]

This thread might be dead, but I also would be interested to learn from anyone who's trained their chickens to poop in only certain locations. I love hanging out with them but I sure am tired of them pooping on me. Especially those cecal poops!

Anyone had luck with it?

 

[azygous]

All my roosters have been paper trained. Whenever I would need to bring one in to keep him in a crate in the garage for any reason, I would get him out every two or three hours and he would poop on command on a newspaper on a shelf by the window. The hens were less likely to hold it until they could go on the paper.

I raised a chick to age five weeks, and now he's a rooster living in a home, sleeping on a file cabinet, and watching TV with the family. I imagine he's paper trained.

It's fairly easy to train roosters to do this. I guess they're just smarter than hens.