Crap!

[Casey]

My Scarlet Macaw; Scarlet has starting holding onto the side of her cage and craps out the side, she's got some distance as well 2.5 feet away from the side.

Anybody else have a macaw that does this?
It's incredibly annoying and dirty!

 

[Featheredsamurai]

LOL My friends macaw does that! Once my friend and I were watching him as he hung by his beak to get tickled, and he took a HUGE poo that landed right between us!

 

[Mayden]

Eurg, Merlin does this sometimes so we get crap on the FRONT side of the cage. It's like, c'mon Merlin...

It is pretty disgusting but I'm not entirely sure how to discourage it. We just clean it up and get on with it.

Senegal poop is bound to be an awful lot smaller though!

 

[Jtbirds]

My blue throated does this, it is a horrible behavior and I've tried hanging toys were he poops out the side, but nothing stops him. I feel for you!

 

[Pinkbirdy]

My Hawkhead does this too. Its almost like she doesnt want to go in her cage. So I have newspapers all around the cage on the floor.

 

[sonja]

My Green wing does this. Naughty bird!

 

[Mudkips]

I can't blame them though. Why poop in your own bedroom when you can eject it out the window?

 

[goalerjones]

I can't blame them though. Why poop in your own bedroom when you can eject it out the window?

As a man I know peeing outdoors is simpler!

 

[Alwese]

Doogie my Catalina is a very nesty bird. He has a collection of rags at the bottom of his cage he uses for a nest. Naturally to avoid pooping on them he poops outside the cage like that. The birdroom floor is all tile making for relatively easy spongemop cleanup. but the acid in his poop makes for rapid rusting of that cage area even when cleaned up. I keep it painted, but stainless cages is the real answer.

 

[cd4565]

I've taught all of my birds to poop on news paper so they never shoot their poop and they never go on us either only on paper. Huey My GW is flighted so when he is on the couch with us he will actually fly back to his stand do his business and fly back to hang out with us. I always make sure their stands or cages have paper in them. Not sure if that is what keeps them from shooting their poop or not just thought I would share. Good Luck!

 

[Blancaej]

Oh lovely! My CAG doesn't do that and hopefully my new GW Savannah won't either. I feel for ya! Good luck finding a solution!

 

[BillsBirds]

Mudkips is right. They poop out of their cage, to keep the waste out of their home.

 

[Greenwing]

My new GW (charlie)projectile poops.. His first poop of the day.. Starts with a grunt and the biggest poop (I have ever seen come out of a bird)shoots straight back over 2ft and explodes on the wall... Since I couldn't stop him I decided it would be easier to use clear runners under and up the walls where it usually lands..

 

[94lt1]

My gw poops at me... Srsly... It seems like he aims at me.... Lol

 

[Jtbirds]

Yea bills i do know that and many macaws seem to do it more then other species just to add what i have come across. It is very hard to break them of it i did it with babygirl and it worked but couldnt break lars of it if i tried and a few others have been broken of it. have you had much success on breaking them from pooping out the sides?

I mean i usually just hang toys were they go to poop out th sides and then they play and just poop hopefully, some just go to another spot though.... like lars

greenwing just hang paper or cardboard on your wall so you just can take it down daily is what i had to do up at the rescue for a little conure with liver issues that did this.. runny nasty poop would get all over the walls now it just hits paper daily.

 

[MonicaMc]

I hear that shower curtains, the plastic floor mats and acrylic sheets for hanging on the sides of the cage bars are a poop-shooter owners best friends...

 

[emmett518]

I bought some black, plastic carpet runner at Home Depot (about $2.27 a linear foot), and put that on the floor around the cage. I then take it out every couple of days, and hose it off / scrub it outside. Works great.

I never knew Macaws could projectile poop.