Potty train indoor Muscovy?

[Gabrielpsherry]

A friend treats her chicken like a dog. She even lets her sleep on the kitchen fridge (nasty indoor pooping). I’ve read several people treat their Muscovy this way. Can a muscovy be potty trained to only poop outside? If not, I don’t understand how folks are doing this sanitarily.

 

[Duckworth]

Some people utilize diapers on their indoor poultry and waterfowl. I am not aware that birds have the ability to gain control over the timing of their excrement, so I don’t know whether they can be trained to go only outdoors or in a litter box like many mammals can.

 

[Helloworld]

I would keep it outside. Poop is runny and your friend needs a service animal if she has chicken poop on top of fridge. Coccidiosis would be a big deterrent because dogs and humans can get.

Duck= HUGE salmonella risk waiting to happen.

 

[Jpat]

Thats disgusting! And yeah liquid stinky goo. Every 5 minuts

People do it though!

@Kkrista123 should be here

 

[Gabrielpsherry]

I’m not interested in doing it. Mostly asking for curiosity sake. But a friend potty trained his parrots. So it seems possible.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I read somewhere that ducks have no control over their bodily excretements. I believe it!

 

[llombardo]

I read somewhere that someone did train their chickens to peck at the door when they had to go to the bathroom and then they came back in when done.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I read somewhere that someone did train their chickens to peck at the door when they had to go to the bathroom and then they came back in when done.

Wow, if only I could get my puppy to do that!

 

[Kkrista123]

@Jpat Krista is here!!
Ok so the fact is true! Ducks, chickens, large bird poultry do not have the muscle needed to control their bathroom needs. Some people use diapers. Some people have claimed to potty train their large bird poultry but all they did is show the poultry grass and give it the option to get outside on it's own as it pleases. They simply feel safer and more natural going potty in the grass compared to indoors so given the option and opportunity to come and go as they please, they probably will poop outside MOST of the time. Other people like myself use different methods of indoor keeping. I keep towels and blankets down underneath my duck and her pen. They get washed as needed and refreshed. I also work in puppy pads sometimes. I only use a diaper if we go into someone else's home. My duck isn't sick and has a yearly check up at the vet with proper vaccines... so no salmonella. Higher chance getting salmonella from their eggs than the poo.