How to Train a Parrot : How to Potty Train a Parrot

[pinkdreamer1000]

What about african greys? How often do they need to go potty?

[lemurfan123]

@pinkdreamer1000 She said in the video that larger birds go every 20 mins or so!

[pinkdreamer1000]

@lemurfan123 african greys are not classed as larger birds haha, they are medium sized birds just like amazons, larger birds are cockatoos and macaws mainly :D so happy i didnt get a macaw then x

[lemurfan123]

@pinkdreamer1000 Oh, lol sorry

[pinkdreamer1000]

@lemurfan123 its okaii :D

[deadman51139]

i have a green parrot that is scared of paper i dont know what to do anymore

[alanastar123]

@deadman51139 thats a funny fear for a parrot, mabey you should try using hamster bedding

[msfionalicious]

@expertvillage how many parrots do you have?

[ThexSilentxSoulx]

"Bombs away." Hahahaha. Never heard that one before. :)

[CrowItAll]

i used the "in the cage" phrase then when he goes in the cage i say "go potty" and it took about 3 months of consistancy but i still have to watch his manerizms lol

[45ILuvKats45]

okay soo my bird is 3 months to the latest but hes still not that use to us since we got him few days ago so hes not really hands on friendly . and i am Really tired of cleaning after him when hes out and about and "doing his busniess" everywhere . how can i potty train him if noone can go near him right now

[gottaluvbirds]

@45ILuvKats45 sooooooo... your looking to tame him/her? i made a video on how to tame parakeets. tell me what type of parrot you have and i should be able to help you.

[Dingo1144]

Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much, you are so cute, I have two african grey parrots and your videos helped me a lot, thank you again from Egypt :)

[alanastar123]

@Dingo1144 your in egypt! cool!

[toadette4ever1234]

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[Armandocoolio]

its the sugar glider lady.

[TheThetruesinger]

does this work on lovebirds

[melisitaization]

Hi im meli and ia have 2 cocktails they are like 8 months but they are like wild, bite and like they are afraid of me i don´t know what to do. helppp

[ALiENxXTC]

@melisitaization i've got cockatiel recently not much of few weeks ago, she wasnt afraid at the pet shop but once she arrived home dad picked her wrong.. and then she started acting crazy/biting hard/flying away till now. but im training her n_n its getting a good progress. Get a hand gloves you know the yellow one so the beak wouldnt break into your skin and try holding the cockatiel/pet them.. you should do that in a small room so you won't need to run.. it may need weeks :L good luck haha :X

[alanastar123]

@melisitaization try watching them for a while and let them get used to you and observing there traits. Hope this helped!

[MyFreakingAwesome]

hey i have a question but im not taking it seriously

if a bird sees you eating a fried chicken or anything that has to do with chicken does the your bird will hate you???

[TVWriterGuy]

Thank you for this clip.....and my AGP will thank you too!

[90flysky]

1:15 exactly, the bird is flying and the women is dreaming.. lol

[kimberly3d]

Great stuff!

[creepygirl94]

this is really helpful! I was wondering about this... like a few minutes ago xD

[victoriacrl]

My budgie lifts it's tail when it wants to poop. The annoying part is that when it does that the poop is stuck to the feathers and it hates the tissue cleaning it's butt XD

[AliceakaTaezen]

beautiful bird! ;)

[xXM0MENTXx]

i try this when i get my new conure...

[rinuchi]

=O you can potty train parrots? I just assumed all birds had no control over it...that is cool

[JustaWonderfullGuy]

lol bombs away

[blowgunking1994]

hey sugar glider lady

[RoarTP]

Gorgeous birds (:

[RoarTP]

Gorgeous bird (:

[JustK8]

I agree about how great it is to offer help to other parrot owners! I was just looking around the internet to see if there would be good quality training tips for free and I am excited that I found them on here! :)

[Kandard]

Thank you. This is a very informative video.

[bluebellyell]

very helpful thank u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mellupa11]

Hey I need Help , I just bought my african grey 2 days ago and when I go close to him He starts screaming ! and once I just let the cage open he flew and sat in a corner and I went near him but he screams and bites and fly far from me ! , Can anyone help me please ?

[killbotfelwick]

@mellupa11 if you're grey is freaking out like that, you just got to give him lots of time to get to know you and trust you. Grey's are very timid for a parrot and require a lot of patience at the beginning. I'm assuming you got him from a pet store and he wasnt hand fed, otherwise if u got him from a breeder that hand fed him he wouldnt be acting that way

[Luucy8]

Does anyone know where i can buy a parrot in australia? Also, are parrots kept otuside in their cages or inside?

[call911fire]

@Luucy8 uh a cockatoo galah anything try trading post or sumthing but but if ur lookin 4 like an ecelectus parrot there range is like 800-1.8 hand rared gl

[bluebellyell]

@Luucy8 they are inside. i have a parrot of my own and they sometimes like going out on a sunny day but in the shade!

[lemurfan123]

WOOPIE!!!!!!!!!!! THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wishingstars163]

Thank you Elizabeth! You are one of the better experts on birds in Expert Village! Thanks so much!

[quinnbeeloved]

thanks!!! my bird goes every 5 minutes. that means i have to run to the sink and let him. :) lol

[StopStealingEggs]

Mine doesnt poo outside of its cage, its the strangest thing considering shes out around 10 hours a day.. But when she goes back in her cage she does the biggest craps you've ever seen in your life.

[DvirOwns]

lol

[FireEpicNoob]

@StopStealingEggs LOL

[GreenJazzOfLove]

Imma start teaching my green cheek how to do that!!:) no more poopy furniture!!:)))

[RandomstuffQ96]

why does my bird keeps trying to bite me, i want to touch him or give him food but he still keeps bitting me :( and it really hurts!!

[Apocalypse487]

mine fluffs his feathers and takes squat.

[clubpenguin1363]

same with mine but somtimes it shakes up then fluffs ups and squats.

[lr279]

thanks, very helpful

[100peru]

thank you elizabeth....

[moonskip]

I'd also like to recommend a slightly different approach. Take your bird back to the inside of their cage when you think it's the "time". Close the door until they do it. Once they've gone, say the preferred phrase and open the door immediately as their temporary reward. They should pick up very quickly.

[moonskip]

My cockatiel was extremely easy to teach. She picked up after only a few tries. I say "go poop" when I think it's been about ten minutes and she goes wherever I take her.

[MagicLewisForever]

Very good, thanks. Will try it.. Our conure is ten years old!

[SuperWarland]

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[Ilovemakemebad35]

i hope this works on my sun conure!!!! he's amazing, it's just he likes to poop on the floor ...

[acgrs8]

lol i hope it works on my 5 month old boy eclectus do you think it will?

[itybity0420]

U used this technique on my umbrella cockatoo when she was 4 or 5 and she learned to use our toilet in a couple days. now she either goes in her cage or the toilet and we've had no accidents in years.

[skateer25]

i have a small green cheek cinamon parrot and i've had him for 3 days

i was just wondering are the green cheeks easy to train or is it going to be harder than larger parrots?

thanks,

alex

[Toddster63]

This is EXCELLENT advice on potty training birds (works for toucans too). It's important to remember that they can't truly be "housebroken" like a dog, and the secret is to get them over the approved spot every 15-20 minutes or so—which is your job; so train yourself well!

With potty training, NO clickers and no negative consequences when they eventually go on your best shirt...!

[chris1995b]

if the potty or bin is in sight of the bird will it go for a poo on its self without saying anything

[waddlewundr]

My bird hates being in his cage. If I look at him, and we make eye contact his way of asking to come out is pooping!

[kilobee77]

Bird bird bird, the bird is the word.

[PCgameKILLER]

bird bird bird THE BIRD IS THE WORD . DO YOU KNOW THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD ????? :D

[SADsupporter]

I have a military macaw, and this technique worked, so thanks

[mermaidamp]

Parrots are hard to potty train.

[Toddster63]

Actually I've trained teeny tiny parrotlets in a few days—it's easy really; parrots are smart.

What is hard is to remember to get the bird over the approved spot every 10-20 minutes or so, round the clock when the bird is out. Most potty training failures are about owners not gettng the bird over the approved spot, and expecting the bird to hold it as if it were a cocker spaniel...!

[drolebol]

what do you do if you're teaching it and sometimes he does poo somewhere else. how to tell them that they shouldn't do it where they want?

i have a lovebird

[S0XF0X]

Birds are going to poo where they want. The only way you can really potty train them is have something you can carry around that you can tell them to poo into or onto on command. If they slip and poo on something else, ignore it and keep trying. Mistakes happen to even us humans when we're learning as kids, so expect that from your feathered kids too.

[drolebol]

can't you learn them to allways fly to a specific place if they need to poo? like a cat that poos @ her "pooplace"

[S0XF0X]

Depends on the bird and the consistancy of training.

[pintohlarge]

what about a ringneck

[Mindbender94]

the are about the size of a parakeet right?

[7738622]

how do i get my parrot not to poop on me

[sheri9987]

I use the command "Uh Oh" - that is an easy one for him to say.

[Mindbender94]

haha thats hilarious xD

[zimmkidrocks]

i learned that my black cap conure spreads his wings then lifts his tail then goes. i thought that i should say go poop abraham. I havn't tryed it yet but ill try soon.  bye-bye

[Phoenix1048]

If this is the case, how can you tell a bird to step-up when they're about to defecate? My African Grey gives very very little warning when about to go, and it lasts like 2 seconds, and a few of the times I can't see him giving any warning whatsoever. Must you just hold a bin under the parrot until he goes? If so this'll be a lot harder than I hoped :/ Sorry btw if all these dumb questions have already been answered, I'm a very slow learner, and want to be as careful as possible when training.

[wlp0604]

I'm no expert, but what I did was simply say "Go potty" whenever I saw my parrot was about to go. After a few months (and lots of messes) I decided to start actually training her to go on my command. She did it on the first try, because she already associated the word "Go potty" with pottying. She would also tell herself to go potty afterwards, lol. She never learned to go in one place, though. I just had to take her to go potty about every 15 mins or so.

[Phoenix1048]

This is very good and all, but what do you do when your parrot is not on your hand/arm? My parrot isn't fully hand trained atm, he just steps up when he wants to (which is a problem ofc, but that's a different issue), and he can often go to bite me when he's out and about in the living room (his favourite room). How is it possible for me to potty train him under these conditions? Can it be done so soon, or will he have to be fully hand trained before? Can anyone help? Thanks :)

[xwarxsabrewulf]

My quaker parrot give no warning whatsoever when it poops.

[lukefairless321]

sometimes a bird may slightly lift its tail or bend over

[kaspar12321]

At 12 seconds my parrotlette pooped on me O.O

[FallenAngel2737]

hahahahaha bombs away lol now thats my new joke lol thats funny thanks i have a parrikeet does that count as a parrot?? i know they are related but i just want to know. but thank you so much becasue my bird is stubbern but im teaching how to say my name.

[nainabananas]

i love my grey parrot i love him and he loves me and i am soooooooooooo happy that there is this video to help me train him!!!!!!!!!!! thanx spoooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!1

[mangolefty]

My conure Mango wakes up, I get her out of her cage and hold a napkin under her and say go puty puty, and she plops on a napkin, then she goes under my robe and cuddles for about 10 minutes while the coffee brews. She was easy to train as we started when she was little and first thing in the morning.

[seargentkong]

wow im gona train my bird to "go potty on that man"

[reptilefan100]

umm i trained mmine to go in a little potty by his cage now he romes free all the time and he just flys over there if he has too poo

[COREYMCGUIRE1993]

the african gray got board lol

[lizza66]

when she talks about the bird repeating the command back to her - my bird does that with "up" when she wants to be held. I think it is cute and I will hold her when she asks, but my boyfriend thinks I am making a mistake because I am then teaching her that she is the boss, not me, and that I should be the one to give the commands. I'm just wondering what people think, is it bad to reinforce correct communication if it doesn't reinforce you being the master?

[GreenDestiny]

Why would it matter who is the "master" in this situation? Commands are one thing but this is about love and affection. They are more intelligent than dogs and I believe can distinguish between commands (don't bite) and a simple request for affection. Don't you want to make them happy? Do you enjoy responding and reciprocating the love? I assume yes...so feel good that your birds wants to be around you and "asks" you to be picked up instead of just flying and landing on your head. :)

[BlueTerryTeddy]

Birds have the emotional intelligence of a 4 year old. If your 4 year old asked to be picked up would you refuse because you thought he would become dominant? Birds understand positive reinforcement and that he uses language appropriately and requests to be picked up are goals most bird owners try to achieve with their bird.

[bearjose]

how do you teach a conure to listen to your commands?

[sliceit436]

omg an african grey im jealous. i always wanted an african grey. by the way does this work for parakeet?

[byirdman]

Anyone do/attempt with cockatiel

[rick2003ar]

This was a good video but I've heard stories of birds being taught to use the bathroom on command and then not going when they need to leading to them getting sick or passing away. I have never taught a parrot to do this but its something that I would possibly caution just in case the parrot doesn't realize that it can use the bathroom in its cage and not just when you tell it to. On the upside this is a great series on parrot training.

[Shocktreat9]

Very true! You are NEVER supposed to teach your parrot to go potty on command. If you want to potty train your bird, you're supposed to only train them to go to a designated area to go potty, NOT to do it command!

[HeyAtlas]

Then how do you get them to go in a certain area?

[Shocktreat9]

Every time you bring your bird out of his cage, set him on the play stand or area you want him to go. Usually, they will go right away when you take them out of their cage. Then you give him a treat. Keep doing this, and watch his body language while you're handling him to get him on that stand before he goes. Treat and praise every time. Find a few designated areas, so he doesn't think that's the ONLY place that he can go. Do not ever use a verbal command.

[HeyAtlas]

Ok that's really helpful cause I don't want to get a bird and end up killing it over potty training, thanks so much. :)

[Shocktreat9]

Hahah! Yeah, I can understand that!!

[HeyAtlas]

What's the best way to teach the to be free flight?

[mlinked]

I assume this area is in there cage so they can go when you go to bed or do they sleep straight away until you take the blanket off?

[UnitedKingdomofAmrca]

oh and teampullmyfinger do you have any other videos than stupid sky diving! boaring >=( >=(

[UnitedKingdomofAmrca]

teampullmyfinger like you never say um. mabey u should get a better hobbie then counting how many ums people say in videos.

[unacarafea]

Very well put. I could watch you talk about anything. You speak well and are easy to look at. Thank you.

[Kochopsticks11]

i agree

[AnonPastafarian]

lol

Bombs away! for the win!!!

[StrangeDayDoors]

What a beautiful African Grey!!!

[militaryqt]

Helpful video thank you very much. It is a shame that some people are so negative towards the awesome efforts you put forth to help other bird owners. It is hard to find anything on the internet to help you with training without giving them money for it. Thanks again!

[judglj13]

thank you for teaching me this it was really usefull