Potty Training Chickens, How-to!

[ChaiGui]

Sorry this thread is old but it gets some activity every now and then

I already have 6 lovely ladies and adding a few more soon!

I will keep them in a brooder in my bathroom like I did last time, it was wonderful having them get used to me and love my company as much as I love theirs!

I'm going to *attempt* potty training. The one question I have is how do they understand inside only the litterbox and outside the WORLD is their litter box? Would they think they can't poo in certain places out there? Would they forget if I don't bring them inside much once they're all grown up?

Look, I just want to be able to chill out with some babies and not worry about poo on me like last time lol

Thank you!

 

[FrostRanger]

Sorry this thread is old but it gets some activity every now and then

I already have 6 lovely ladies and adding a few more soon!

I will keep them in a brooder in my bathroom like I did last time, it was wonderful having them get used to me and love my company as much as I love theirs!

I'm going to *attempt* potty training. The one question I have is how do they understand inside only the litterbox and outside the WORLD is their litter box? Would they think they can't poo in certain places out there? Would they forget if I don't bring them inside much once they're all grown up?

Look, I just want to be able to chill out with some babies and not worry about poo on me like last time lol

Thank you!

I think you'd probably be better off just letting them out somewhere you can easily clean. From reading the instructions in the original post, the birds need to already be hand trained and you only want to do one at a time which hand training chicks takes a while by itself so it's doubtful that you'd get both taming them and potty training them done before they're ready to go outside

 

[ChaiGui]

I think you'd probably be better off just letting them out somewhere you can easily clean. From reading the instructions in the original post, the birds need to already be hand trained and you only want to do one at a time which hand training chicks takes a while by itself so it's doubtful that you'd get both taming them and potty training them done before they're ready to go outside

Thank you for commenting!

Agreed, it would be a full time job training and bonding (working from home is a plus). But I am willing to give it a shot If it doesn't work out, hard floors are easily cleaned.

For my first girls we didn't have the coop/run built for 2ish months so I had a lot of time with them inside. I didn't think to try potty training. I still have to look up how to introduce them to my current flock, thankfully one is quite broody hanging out on other's eggs so if she's still like this come April she'd make a good step mom I think lol