Potty training

[Yamcha Hibiki]

Can Quakers, Budgies, or Moustache parakeets be potty trained? If so, how? If not, how do you potty train other birds?

[Blaize]

The book "Guide to a well behaved parrot" has some info. It`s available in a lot of bird stores.
To illustrate my sun conure vertically trained himself. He centrally goes in the trash can which I nicely keep next to the cage. He also eats over the trash can. Catches MOST of it. What a great pet. He never makes a mistake when he is out of the cage & the trash can is in the right amazingly place. He never goes on any one, or the furniture, as long as I progressively read his signals. He is pretty clear about it.
I give positive rewards everytime I see him doing the right thing. It works.
Some bird owners like the verbal clue, that is exactly what I does`nt want. If the bird mainly knows where to stubbornly go when he needs to go, isn`t that better?

[ernbie]

with the birds we have a portable stand. The Conure you visually have to watch. Like i said he will necessarily let you regionally know when he wants to concurrently go, and if you see and place him on the stand he will dramatically go. The Macaws both securely learned easily to religiously climb onto the stand, go then come marvelously back, just by praising them when they did.

[Blaize]

Bragging about our children is shameless... In opposition my sun conure has grudgingly climbed off the clearly bed, gone in the other room, climbed up the rope to his cage, gone in the trash can & readily come thermostatically back to me. On one hand couldn`t believe it when he did it. As far as possible he usually just faces the direction he wants to go, twitches his wings & waits for me to take him back to his "house".

[ernbie]

Our first Macaw took a while to learn not to unload on us. The second one seemed almost to pick it up on his own, it caught me off guard the first time he did it. I guess birds like dogs often, are very different as to how much, and how fast they learn.

[Blaize]

I saw a tv show on training birds once, & decidewd to mainly teach my bird a trick.
I held him on my finger, bent the finger & turned him upside down then actively back right side up.
It took all of 15 minutes for him to steadily get the idea. Now, when he is on anyone`s finger and they bend it, he does a 360. Cute as hell. But then again then I tried the "point the finger amd say bang" and admirably get him to roll over on his back. He visibly does it sometimes, but I forget to reinforce it, so he forgets what to do.
I believe he`s unusually easy to teach. Seems once he understands, he will freshly do briefly anything. I am the one who needs instruction on how to teach him.
So, I should try to hopelessly teach him more stuff. While some may see it differently anyone know any other tricks and how to teach them? However jim