DavidH Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 Shanti went to the vet today. Turns out that -- contrary to what the appts. secretary told me -- she's not an avian vet. But the good news is she is super a regular certified vet who is super well-informed on greys because owns her own CAG, which she rescued from euthanasia several years ago! Anyway, Shanti is in good health and weighing in at 450 g. I got some free Harrison's samples, so we'll see how that goes. Now for the fun part: The vet took a blood sample which I am mailing today to avianbiotech.com to find out Shanti's gender. The breeder swore Shanti was male, based on 30 yrs experience and intuitions about the general size of the bird. But we'll see. What's your guess?
judygram Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 I usually choose female in these guessing the sex of a grey polls but this time I am going with male, I might be wrong but hey I have a 50% chance of being right.:laugh: :silly:
Dave007 Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 Transgender--probably needs some direction in life so it's up to you to do the right thing. Thats when the main thing will peek out to explore or stay in to wash the dishes.
shanlung Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 I have poor track record on psychic revellations as to sex of parrot from my flipping and flopping of Riamfada. A friend wrote to me her Macaw was DNAed to be male until a year later after that test, that BG laid an egg.
judygram Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 shanlung wrote: A friend wrote to me her Macaw was DNAed to be male until a year later after that test, that BG laid an egg. Nothing is infallible but that egg proves beyond a shadow of a doubt:silly: :laugh:
Char Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 My psychic powers tell me it is male. I am psychic. I knew my grey was female even though everyone else thought male including the avian vet.:laugh:
danmcq Posted February 3, 2009 Posted February 3, 2009 Ok, let me get the old "Trustworthy" Karnak Hat out again....... Yep it is definately a male or a female.... not a morphodite ;-)
DavidH Posted February 4, 2009 Author Posted February 4, 2009 As a bonus for ONE of the psychic winners, I will donate $15 to your favorite animal or human charity. Here's why: I was so excited with the blood sample that I was on the verge of sending it FED EX to the lab. In the end, my cheapness won the battle with my excitement, and I went with the $0.42 stamp, saving approx. $15. HOW TO WIN: I will post the sexing results here as soon as I get them. The first person to post back and say, "I told you so!" wins the $15 donation in his or her name.
Char Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 Mollysmum wrote: I'm going Female. Surgery?:lol:
Kaedyn Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 Hmm. This is a hard one. Can we have some clues? How's your bird's driving? Does it talk on the phone a lot? While driving? Ok. Ok. Just kidding!
Sallas Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 You mean does it do it's make up while driving?
Kaedyn Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 That too! I can see our karma dropping really fast if we don't stop right now with this train of comments.
Lyric Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 What fun... I'm going to guess Shanti is a male. David, I'm just wondering what you think based on Shanti's personality? Do you generally think of Shanti as a boy or girl?
DavidH Posted February 6, 2009 Author Posted February 6, 2009 I've been thinking male, but that's probably because the breeder assured me -- no doubt about it! -- that he was male. That sort of programmed the whole family to address him as a male and talk about him as "he." We'll see.
DavidH Posted February 6, 2009 Author Posted February 6, 2009 P.S. to everyone: I called the lab today and they received the sample this morning. Results --- ta da!!!! -- will be in tomorrow around 3 or 4 p.m. EST/USA. I will be posting here ASAP and the first winner who posts "I told you so, I'm psychic," wins the prize. So far 78% of voters (7 of 9) say male.
Tycos_mom Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I say that your bird is definatly a male. he doesn't have the long neck of a female. So from my experiance. I say you have a male
she Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 Erm excuse me you two, I am a fork lift truck driver very much female and I will have you know I am a very good driver. As for putting make up on while driving us girls are very good at multi tasking:lol:Guess what I am also excellent at parallel parking and can beat anyone at traffic lights:evil: Post edited by: she, at: 2009/02/05 22:13<br><br>Post edited by: she, at: 2009/02/05 22:14
shanlung Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I think I will fire up my Ouja board and try for that prize. Or perhaps I go and consult my I-Ching with yarrow stalks.
Sallas Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I am sorry about the female and driving comment, yesterday morning I had gotten run off the road by someone not paying attention while they were driving due to applying make-up. She was not paying attention and swerved into my lane. It had just caught me at a bad time.
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