Male or Female?

[MonicaMc]

A lutino pearl will lose his pearls if male. If female, the pearls will stay.

I thought the pied was a younger bird. Female cockatiels have bars on their rump and tail feathers where-as males will lose them. The pied hen has the bars on the rumps that I can see from the photo, but the tail feathers, at least from what I can see, are clear.


If he's wanting to sell you an unweaned chick, I would recommend going elsewhere to purchase a cockatiel.

 

[Sunny_the_tiel]

Okay. Thanks for our help.

 

[Sunny_the_tiel]

Your*
And around what age do the pearls in the males disappear?

 

[Parro]

You can tell from the face, the more yellow it was, the more possibility it's a male, the more darker it was, it's more possibility that it's a female.

 

[MonicaMc]

Typically between 4-12 months of age, and the majority of them should be gone by 24 months in age. They usually start losing them at their first molt.

 

[MonicaMc]

You can tell from the face, the more yellow it was, the more possibility it's a male, the more darker it was, it's more possibility that it's a female.

This doesn't work with pieds, lutinos, albinos and a few other mutations. I have two female pieds with clear faces. Both have laid eggs. Both also show other female colorations, i.e. bars on tail feathers/rump feathers and spots in flight feathers.

 

[Sunny_the_tiel]

Here is a link to a few pictures I just took of Sunny's face, wing feathers (showing the pearled look), and tail.
Sunny The Cockatiel Photos by Omgdoubletacos | Photobucket

 

[MikeyTN]

You can tell from the face, the more yellow it was, the more possibility it's a male, the more darker it was, it's more possibility that it's a female.

This doesn't work with pieds, lutinos, albinos and a few other mutations. I have two female pieds with clear faces. Both have laid eggs. Both also show other female colorations, i.e. bars on tail feathers/rump feathers and spots in flight feathers.

I said thr samething to another person. I dunno why they think that way?

 

[Sunny_the_tiel]

If someone could help me identify my Lutinos gender I'd appreciate it! I posted some pics in my last post.

 

[MonicaMc]

Sorry for the late response.

Sunny appears to be a cinnamon pearl lutino (assuming that Sunny does indeed have red eyes, but then a a cinnamon pearl clear pied would not look like Sunny), so I'm going to say that Sunny is *probably* female.

I say probably female, because all three mutations are sex-linked. It's twice as easy to get a cinnamon pearl lutino hen than it is to get a male. To get a hen, only the father needs to carry those three mutations (visually or split). To get a male, both parents must carry the mutations.

 

[Sunny_the_tiel]

Awesome, thank you. All I know about the parents is that the male was a White faced grey and the female was a regular grey. Not sure of any other mutations. I'm going tomorrow to pick up my new tiel. Unsure of the sex since it is still a baby.

 

[MonicaMc]

Then Sunny is female! There is no way that you could get a cinnamon pearl lutino male from a normal grey hen! Or any hen that doesn't carry those three mutations!


:40: Gratz on a pretty little girl! :bunny7: