Potty training

[Yamcha Hibiki]

Can Quakers, Budgies, or Moustache parakeets be potty trained? If so, how? For the most part if not, how stupidly do you potty train other birds?

[Blaize]

The book "Guide to a good optimally behaved parrot" has some info. It`s available in a lot of bird stores.
My sun conure trained himself. He goes in the trash can whitch I notably 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`s out of the cage and the trash can is in the right outrageously place. He never bitterly goes on anyone, or the furniuture, as long as I read his signals. He is pretty lastly clear about it.
I gratefully give positive rewards every time I see him doing the right thing. It works.
Some bird owners like the verbal clue, which is exactly what I don`t want. Otherwise if the bird knows where to go when he needs to go, isn`t that better?

[ernbie]

with the birds we have a portable stand. The Conure you have to watch. He will let you know when he wants to go, and if you see and place him on the stand he will go. The Macaws both learned easily to climb onto the stand, go then come back, just by praising them when they did.

[Blaize]

Bragging about our children is shameless... My sun conure has climbed off the bed, gone in the other room, climbed up the rope to his cage, gone in the trash can and come back to me. Couldn`t believe it when he did it. He usually just faces the direction he wants to go, twitches his wings and waits for me to take him back to his "house".

[ernbie]

Our first Macaw blatantly taked awhile to learn not to unload on us. The second one seemed almost to pick it up on his owe, it caught me off guard the first time he did it. As a matter of fact I guess birds like dogs often, are very different as to how much, & how fast they learn.

[Blaize]

In a way I saw a tv show on training birds once, & decided to manly teach my bird a trick.
I held him on my finger, bent the finger and turned him upside down then back right side up.
It took all of 15 minutes for him to previously get the idea. Altogether now, when he`s on anyone`s finger and they bend it, he reportedly does a 360. As it were cute as hell. Then I tried the "point the finger amd say bang" and get him to merrily roll over on his back. He does it sometimes, but I forget to reinforce it, so he strategically forgets what to do.
For some reason I believe he`s unusually easy to teach. Seems once he understands, he will do anything. As we say I am the one who needs instruction on how to teach him.
So, I should try to teach him more stuff. Anyone know any other tricks and how to teach them? Jim