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Post by honeyandthebee on Sept 14, 2005 20:23:03 GMT 10
Hi
Does anyone know how you can tell the sex of a rainbow Lorikeet?
Besides getting them surgically sexed..
Thanks Guys....
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Post by billspets on Sept 14, 2005 21:02:47 GMT 10
hello honeyandthebee
there is only 2 ways to get a true sexing and that is either DNA or surgical sexing
but i have been advised by an old time breeder that the females have more red on there chest than males
hope this helps
regards
bill
and in the case of the pair i have he is correct
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Post by AussieBirds on Sept 14, 2005 21:06:38 GMT 10
Actually Bill there are three ways the third one is if they lay an egg it's a female. I have a rainbow and for a couple of years we called her him until one morning we found an egg in the bottom of her cage, you just cant visually sex them.
John
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Post by jeremy on Sept 15, 2005 9:13:00 GMT 10
Rainbow Lorikeets are sexually dimorphic, meaning there is no possible way to sex them visually. What some people do is just put about 10 or so in a large aviary and see who pairs up, most often or not, you will get male/female pairs but this isn't 100% accurate
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Post by honeyandthebee on Sept 15, 2005 9:35:19 GMT 10
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Post by lin on Sept 26, 2005 9:49:45 GMT 10
I have been told, although I personally can't see it, that males have a longer beak.
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Post by Laraine on Sept 27, 2005 11:56:28 GMT 10
If its the case of more red on their fronts I have a pair of lesbian loris, every night the two of them settle down in their breeding box. No wonder I haven't got any eggs.
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Post by billspets on Sept 27, 2005 12:37:24 GMT 10
hello leraine
well i must admit i didnt realy belive the gentleman that told me but i am afraide what he said in my case is correct and well i had 2 babies hatch today
regards
bill
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Post by lin on Sept 27, 2005 13:04:11 GMT 10
Oh Bill, I'm sooo jealous. Please post pics!
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Post by 2many on Oct 26, 2005 11:18:20 GMT 10
I have a breeding pair and was told that the male was the one with the most red on his crop?  ? Beats me but I know that they are a pair as they have had one baby already and I think she is getting ready to lay more. |
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Post by loriluver on Oct 27, 2005 16:49:02 GMT 10
Jeremy, Please correct me if i am wrong but sexual dimorphism means that the two sexes are of vast contrast such in the case with Eckies.
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Post by ozquaker on Oct 28, 2005 17:58:44 GMT 10
Just a clarification on the use of the term 'sexual dimorphism' - di = two; morph = shape/forms. So a sexually dimorphic species does mean that the sexes can be distinguished by their colour, shape or other distinguishing feature. Lorikeets would be sexually monomorphic. ;D
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Post by Laraine on Nov 3, 2005 11:38:11 GMT 10
Maybe I'll look in my Australian Birds book to see what they have to say about it.
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Post by bunnobird on Feb 28, 2006 20:27:34 GMT 10
I have found looking at friends pairs that the male has a larger rounder head. But these are sexed breeding pairs so maybe if you didn't already know you might not be able to pick it
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Post by silvercloud on Feb 28, 2006 21:07:14 GMT 10
Can you tell by the length of the tail?
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? Beats me but I know that they are a pair as they have had one baby already and I think she is getting ready to lay more.
