My Cocktail Bird IDK Wat He Is
Sexing cockaitels can be a fairly easy task or a fairly difficult one. It all depends on what color mutation you have. If you have the Normal Grey cockatiel, which is the most common, sexing is easy. But you have to wait until they are at least 6 months old to be able to sex them. For the males, they have a bright colored yellow head with orange cheek pouches. The females are more grey in color, and lack the yellow head, and have very faded orange cheek pouches. Females also have a barring pattern on their tail which looks like this:
http://usuarios.multimania.es/ancientgam ... If a cockatiel has this, she is a female. All Normal Grey cockatiels have the female colorings until after 6 months. If the cockaitel looks the same after this, it is female. If the cockatiel developes a more colorful face, it is a male. Remember, these rules only apply to the Normal Grey cockatiel mutation, other mutations are different.
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Here is a beautiful photo that clearly shows the difference in the sexes. (Female on left, male on right)
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ petcocka ... Some cockatiels are really complicated to sex, or almost cannot be sexed at all. More complicated ones to sex would include the Lutino, Pied, Whiteface, Fallow, and more.
If you know the color mutation of your bird let me know. I could go into more detail on that certain mutation. I've included the Normal Grey because it is easy to sex, and many people have that common mutation. If you don ' t know what mutation you have and can get a picture, send me that. I'd be happy to help you.
With grey cockatiels, males often have yellow faces and are solid colored under their tails. Females have more grey on their faces and have feathers that are yellow and white under their tails.
Lutinos, use the tail method in bright light,
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Cinnamon, Ino, Opaline, Pallid, and Pied cockatiels are 75% likely to be female.
Also, check the vent. (AKA: the anal area) Girls have wider pelvic bones than males. Not foolproof though. If you're unsure, get the bird DNA sexed.
You just said "he". He must be a boy then.
Anyways, just incase you're wrong, here's a site:
http://www.cockatielcottage.net/cockatie ...
With birds you can almost never really tell unless you do a blood test.
Or you can assume it's a he until he lays eggs=p then you know it's a female.
Read this
http://www.cockatielcottage.net/cockatie ...
search on google images of a comparison
