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Post by AussieBirds on Nov 17, 2011 8:22:14 GMT 10
You may remember that I also have a blue pair of Ring necks, both young birds and supposidly a pair, my question is at what age do the males get their ring I have a suspision that i have a pair of females. John.  Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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Post by blinkybill on Nov 17, 2011 10:00:58 GMT 10
If male i believe that they will get their ring at around 18 months.
it is soo cute!!! i have and 11 month old green ringneck. they are very precious birds indeed.
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Post by avinet on Nov 17, 2011 11:22:21 GMT 10
How old are they John? 12 months? Some males get a ring at their 12 month moult but most at their 2nd year molt. However by 12 months there is usually no problem sexing them by behaviour - if you are familiar with them  Basically if you have a pair I would have expected with a 12 months old pair that the male would have been doing some display and courtship of his female - the stretching up of the neck, eyes pinning, wings spread out a bit sort of stuff - the sort of thing you would have seen with the pair that bred. If you haven't then get them sexed - if there has been no display activity then you may well have 2 hens and the sooner you know then the sooner you can get the necessary male(s) for successful breeding next year. cheers, Mike |
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Post by AussieBirds on Nov 17, 2011 11:47:51 GMT 10
How old are they John? 12 months? Some males get a ring at their 12 month moult but most at their 2nd year molt. However by 12 months there is usually no problem sexing them by behavior - if you are familiar with them Basically if you have a pair I would have expected with a 12 months old pair that the male would have been doing some display and courtship of his female - the stretching up of the neck, eyes pinning, wings spread out a bit sort of stuff - the sort of thing you would have seen with the pair that bred. If you haven't then get them sexed - if there has been no display activity then you may well have 2 hens and the sooner you know then the sooner you can get the necessary male(s) for successful breeding next year. cheers, Mike That's what I thought Mike, as far as displaying is concerned they more fight with each other rather than display, not full on fighting but more like lunging at each other and instead of sitting together they sit at the opposite end of the aviary and squawking as they spar. I don't know how old they are and neither does the guy I bought them off however I do know they are young birds, I'm prepared to wait and perhaps match one of my Lutino babies with them, I know it will be a long wait but it is something I am prepared to do. John |
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Post by avinet on Nov 17, 2011 17:42:04 GMT 10
That's what I thought Mike, as far as displaying is concerned they more fight with each other rather than display, not full on fighting but more like lunging at each other and instead of sitting together they sit at the opposite end of the aviary and squawking as they spar. I don't know how old they are and neither does the guy I bought them off however I do know they are young birds John If you and the guy you bought them from don't know how old they are then how do you know they are young birds? Once a ringneck develops adult eyes by 6 months it is extremely difficult to guess an age. Certainly their behaviour suggests two females. Males are often quite friendly to each other until a girl turns up to cause problems - Kat can tell you all about that  Get them sexed, it only costs $20 or less a bird and you will know and can organize a mate for next spring and with successful breeding be way ahead. Otherwise it will be 2 years before you will get babies, and you don't know yet even if you will have any males in the three babies you have. While you are at it I would also suggest getting the three babies sexed - it is much easier to sell young ringnecks if you know their sex - although that means you will have to close ring them before they are 12 days old. One trick with ringneck babies all the same colour when we didn't want to ring them is to use a black marker pen and as soon as the feathers o their heads appeared we would put dots on their heads - with 6 babies we would go from no dot up to 5 dots to be able to tell the 6 babies apart. In you case you could have no-dot, 1-dot and 2-dot. Those were the names we would sell them with out of the shop  cheers, Mike |
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