Grey Sexes

[Guest danielsingh]

Hi All,

 

Just wanted to ask you if one can know the sex of grey by the color of feathers or not?

 

below is a picture I am attaching which shows a color variation in chicks, darker ones are males and lighter colored ones are females.

 

Does this theory sound true in real life or not?

 

 

Please comment.

[Ray P]

The only 100% way to know for sure is a DNA test

[Luvparrots]

I have a light grey colored male CAG. Sterling Gris was dna tested so, he truly is a light grey male.

[judygram]

Some people claim that the males have a flatter type head and females have a V pattern underneath the tail section but the only true way besides having them undergo surgery is to do a dna test.

[katana600]

Our breeder had the same pair of grey's for thirty years and with all that time and experience, she could guess at a clutch and get the gender right with an impressive accuracy rate, but that was because she had seen a clutch of chicks every year or two from the same parents. She said she could look at chicks from other people and not have a clue. With that said, with all her experience, she still had DNA tests on every chick, so even with her success rate at guessing, DNA was her choice as well.

[kins2321@yahoo.com]

I have DNA sexed all my birds thru testing. The only scientic way Nancy

[Guest danielsingh]

Dear RayP, luvparrots,, judygram, katana600, kins2321,

 

thanks all for your comments. I will do for DNA sexing for my babies too.

 

[snoepgoed123]

Like Ray said the only way to truly test is DNA. Body shape is an indicator, but not really 100% When I got Archimedes part of me knew that he was a male, though I'm sure a lot of it was also wishful thinking. Whether your little one is male or female, in the long run it doesn't matter because he or she will be your little bundle of joy regardless!

[aerial.2000]

i was told the only true way .. was DNA too .... Ive heard all the stuff up there too bout the flatter head and colors ... my petstore truly believes Marco is a boy .. we'll see justttttt how good they are LOL when I get his DNA results back soon :eek:

[Guest danielsingh]

thanks @snoepgoed123, @aerial

 

actually i was checking research articles and the Alex foundation and jumped on a pdf article which stated

that amazon parrots sexes can be differentiated by feather colors. (light/female& dark/male)

 

This was an interesting read:

 

http://proaviculture.com/molt.htm

Edited March 17, 2012 by danielsingh

[snoepgoed123]

danielsingh, you're comparing apples to oranges... while that article is talking about african greys at some points, mostly during the molt... african greys are not dimorphic birds (male birds look different than females, think eclectuses). African greys are also a completely different type of parrot than poi's... take for example the congo's scientific name is Psittacus erithacus erithacus while a senegal's is Poicephalus senegalus. Both species of birds have similar characteristics, but unfortunately, we aren't able to sex greys just by looking at them. Body shape may give an idea, but the only true way to find out is either dna sexing or surgery.

[Mistyparrot]

Thanks for the link about moulting Danielsingh . There is a good article there about moulting.When I adopted Misty seven years ago he went through a couple of moults which at first I thought was a problem until I understood what was happening.

 

Steve n Misty