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Post by featherlove on Oct 24, 2013 11:36:36 GMT 10
Hello fellow bird lovers.. well what a dilemna i have . I bought a boy and what I was told, girl cockatiel about 9 months ago. The male is definitely a boy, but the supposed female i am now not to sure. She is very agressive towards the male.. no love shown.. she makes a LOT of noises .. and carries on all morning with a racket .. is smaller than him and has orange cheeks .. I did buy her as a female but wether they were DNA checked or not i have no clue. So I guess my question is, can a female make whistling sounds? and why are her cheeks red? I was told she comes from a whole line of different coloured ones, including cinnamon, lutino, the works..She has the bars under her tail though ... please help.   |
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Post by avinet on Oct 24, 2013 12:20:35 GMT 10
Hello fellow bird lovers.. well what a dilemna i have . I bought a boy and what I was told, girl cockatiel about 9 months ago. The male is definitely a boy, but the supposed female i am now not to sure. She is very agressive towards the male.. no love shown.. she makes a LOT of noises .. and carries on all morning with a racket .. is smaller than him and has orange cheeks .. I did buy her as a female but wether they were DNA checked or not i have no clue. So I guess my question is, can a female make whistling sounds? and why are her cheeks red? I was told she comes from a whole line of different coloured ones, including cinnamon, lutino, the works..She has the bars under her tail though ... please help. A young male partly coloured up and not much over 9 months old. Male cockatiels start out looking like females, but start to colour up into their male colours at around 6 months. By 12 -14 months they are fully coloured males. Those barred tail feathers will soon start to moult out and be replaced with solid dark grey feathers - possibly some have already moulted and been replaced. Before you start to see this colour change happening the young males will start to whistle and produce a variety of calls - something females don't do - they just shout. This male vocalizing generally starts by 3 months although some may be 4 months before whistling. Also note that a grey female cannot carry the genes for lutino and cinnamon and still be grey - if she was carrying those genes she will show the colour. Lutino and cinnamon have a sex-linked inheritance meaning the females cannot be split to those colours. Either they show the colour or they do not carry the gene. If a seller tell you a female cockatiel is split to lutino or cinnamon they don't know what they are talking about - and are also unlikely to be able to sex young cockatiels - as happened in this case. If you are wanting to breed, and require aviary birds, it is best to get 6 month or older birds that can be accurately sexed.frm appearance and behaviour. cheers, Mike |
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Post by featherlove on Oct 24, 2013 12:32:08 GMT 10
The man i got these from clearly didnt have a clue then lol. OH well. Thanks for letting me know, strangely i had a gut feeling for a few months .. He did actually tell me she would breed or throw all sorts of babies but as you said, he didnt know much about them, and neither do I! thanks for your input.. it has helped greatly!
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