How do I potty train my cockatiel???

Question

Someone please help me, I don't want my tiel playing on the keyboard and then poops on it. I know it can be done because I've heard people say they've done it.Any help that will work is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Like izzy said. My sister potty trained her tiel. My sister said it took an awful lot of patience watching, learning behavior, but in the long run she was pleased that she did not have to use a command and he just did it where he was trained to. She finds an occasional slip, but told me that the surrounding changed to where she thought he was a little confused, for example to many people around, weather change, furniture not in the same place.

Answer 2

You can train your bird to be potty trained. It takes some patience though, and it is true that sometimes they will hold it until they hear the command 'poop.'
Try to teach him/her to poop on a piece of paper. Potty training a bird is the same as a dog. Whenever they go say 'poop' or whatever you want the word to be. Or if you don't want to go through the trouble, you can always get a bird jungle gym and put it next to your computer.

Answer 3

Potty Training can be taught, however there are downfalls to this training, once trained some birds have been known to wait until commanded to poop ending with a very sick bird, depending on how you wish to train, example to only poop in certain areas of there cage, some folks even have trained there bird to poop in the bathroom stool this has resulted in many drowned birds.
Maybe you could concider keeping the bird in his her cage while your on your PC, this will be much easier and safer for all concerned.
Best wishes
BrokenWing

Answer 4

I have two potty trained cockatoos at home and it is pretty easy to train them, as long as you have the time. I'll give you the steps that I used with success.


1. Make friends with the bird. Birds don't like to poop on their friends. Trust me, my grey hates me and he will aim it at me...lol.

2. Watch your birds pooping habits. How long after he eats does he poop? How many minutes between the next poop and so on...Watch him closely and keep it in mind for the next step.

3. Right after your bird eats pick him up and sit with him somehwere comfortable, like the couch. If he allows you to pet him then do so, keeping your hand near his rear and kind of holding his feathers down to help him resist the urge to go. Hold him for however long it took between eating and pooping when you watched him before (probably 15 minutes or so) (or when he starts to figit which he may do if he needs to poop and you are holding his butt down), then quickly and still holding down his butt if he will let you take him back to his cage and put him on his perch.

4. Wait for him to lift his tail like he is going to poop and say a word (we use 'drop') and say it clearly while he is pooping. Offer him immediate praise and a treat if you have one. Pick him up again and play with him some more, following the same steps as above.

5. You do not have to do this each time he eats and each time he poops for him to catch on. Continue this regimin for as long as it takes. He will eventually learn that the word means to poop and that he should only do that in his cage. You can then teach him that it is also okay to poop on a perch if you have one by doing the same thing. He may not go at first, but he will learn.

My birds will only poop in their cages, on their perches, or outside. They will almost always try even if they don't have to when I use the command (but be careful with this as I have heard of birds straining to poop only to please their owner). This is great for car rides and when I let strangers hold them. Still you may get pooped on by your bird. If this happens after they are potty trained it is your own fault. Birds need to poop usually every 15 minutes or so. If you forget...well they can only hold it for so long. BTW my umbrella will hold it for a half hour or more if he really likes the person holding him. He is such a sweet heart.

Good luck!

Answer 5

you can't, well you can put an invention called the bird diaper, but don't listen to DavidNH

Answer 6

you don't........ all fowls releases are involuntary...in other words they have no control so keep him/her on a stand in a cage or a place with lots of paper beneath

Answer 7

buy him a potty seat & then purchase him a train ticket weirdossssssssssssssssssssssss still exsist

Answer 8

it is possible but it takes a long time.You have to watch and record when ur bird goes pee/poo then when u have ur bird and it is around the time when they go pee/poo put them where u want them to go pee/poo they say go pee

Answer 9

Put a little cork in its bottom.