Male or Female....I have no idea

[maceygrey]

Ok guys ...Hi all

 

I have an AG I took on about 2 years ago....I think she is about 3. The thing is I am unsure as to wheather or not she is a she or a he. She / he took to me straight away and hates males.

 

She is a small CAG compared to others I have seen and very pretty I know this doesnt matter but I have no idea if I have a boy or a girl.

 

I would like to get tested but getting a blood feather is proving very difficult...can anyone help?

 

Thanks x

[judygram]

It was my understanding you could pluck a couple of chest feathers to be tested for sex or you can go with a little drop of blood, usually taken from a nail clip. Are you doing the mail in test?

[LisaM]

Your vet can get a blood sample for the testing. I'm a ninny about those things so that's what I did. :-)

[Mistyparrot]

It's likely to be either male or female but why does it matter to you?

Are you intending to breed your parrot ?

I suspect that Maceys dislike of men is more likely due to formative experiences

with human males than Maceys own sex.

I was told that my Misty was male when he came to me at two years old and I suspect that he is because he is so untidy and makes a lot of sense when he talks;)

But I don't know for sure and to be honest I don't care because Misty would still be Misty what ever.

If you must know take Macey to an avian vet . I understand that pulling blood feathers can be both painful and risky.

 

Steve n Misty

[maceygrey]

hey guys....if it was up to me i couldnt care less....cos she loves me (kind of)..she still nips me sometimes when she is in a mood but i dont care cos she is my friend. i would never hurt her xxx i love her like shes my friend xx

[Luvparrots]

If you want to DNA test your grey without the aid of a vet, you can get a kit from Avian BioTech.com. Their website gives information on the procedure. You can pluck a few feathers or use a blood sample. They will send either kit free but there is a fee for the test and a certificate of the testing is returned with the results. They also e-mail results within the week. I DNAd my grey because I just wanted to know if I was right that she was a female and I was right.

[judygram]

I'm confused here, you don't care whether you have a male or female so why do you want to do the test? You said if it was left up to you then you couldn't care less so is someone else making you find out what sex Macey is?

[Janfromboone]

I wanted to know about the sex right away. I wanted to know so I could name Tobie appropriately and also just because dogs birds or just friends I relate to a little differently according to the sex whether I'm aware of it or not. I let the vet take a blood sample by nail clip on his first visit to the vet. Apparently it was no big deal because it took only a second and Tobie didn't seem distressed at all.

[BMustee]

I do the DNA tests at my work and the nail clipping for the blood sample isn't as bad as what people would think. I also prefer the blood to the feather test because I don't think I could pluck a bunch of feathers off a birds chest...clipping a nail a little short seems less stressful to me.

[DavidH]

I will probably have the vet do the test this week.

 

I only care because it's awkward to talk about (and to) him/her with an ambiguous gender. We speak four languages in this household and in a lot of instances you have to make a gender assumption. For example, do I say Hola guapo (male) or hola guapa (female)?

[Toni]

Yea I have to agree too.I didnt plan and wont breed Alcazar but if he done something wrong I would like to say,"yea typical male here" OR "Yup, just like her mama".I got lucky.I get to say Typical male here....lol...:woohoo: