How can u tell the diffrens from a boy cocketail and a girl cocketail?

Question

I wanna know how to find out how to tell if a cocketail is a boy or girl PLZ HELP!

Answer 1

Males have a great vocal ability and whistle a lot females generally are fairly quiet

Males whistle and call, whereas females tend to screech females are often more likely to hiss and bite

Where applicable, males have slightly darker or brighter colorings on the face and orange cheek patches any hint of barring, markings or spots on the underside of the tail feathers or wings when they are spread indicates a female (you may need to hold your cockatiel up to a bright light in order to see any markings)

Males tend to strut around - they lift their wings slightly, stick their chest out and parade and strut, normally calling at the same time

Place a mirror in front of your cockatiel. How does it react? Normally a male will be fascinated and the mirror should hold his attention for quite some time while he performs in front of it. A female tends to lose interest fairly quickly

Answer 2

It depends on the type of cockatiel that you have, and even then, it's not 100%. If you have a "wild type" cockatiel, which are the ones with the grey bodies, yellow heads and orange cheeks, typically the male will have bright orange cheeks and the female's will be more subtle.

In any other color mutation, pretty much all bets are off! lol Breeding has so mixed up the colors of cockatiels that it's rare to be able to tell males from females visually anymore. If you want to be 100% sure if you have a male or female, you can get it DNA sexed, but that is a pretty pricey process. You can also just wait until your cockatiel reaches sexual maturity and see if it either a) masturbates (I kid you not, male parrots will do it) or b) lays eggs. ;)

(and to comment on the first poster's comments, female cockatiels have the ability to talk as well; males are just more prone to do it)

Answer 3

I feel it is not well to generalize Beings like this. Prototyping individuals relying on their gender, or different elements is solely being prejudiced. There r many character component governing the human's conduct..for instance...a girl generally is a robust bodybuilder(almost always it is a Male's trait)...or a songwriter may also be touchy and emotional....or a father may also be(n almost always is) very being concerned( almost always a Female's trait). So it involves the character personalities ultimately...

Answer 4

The females are gray and much less colorful than the males. It is said that males are much more vibrant, because it was God's way of making them able to protect their mate and babies. By being more colorful, they draw their stalker's attention towards themselves and away from Mama and the nest of babies. Females are also less colorful, because they are made more camouflaged for easier hiding. This is true with all birds, not just cockatiels. Isn't God a genius?? ;-)

Answer 5

Depends what colour they are.. visual sexing also isn't to reliable until they are older. For ordinary greys males will have very bright yellow faces with red cheeks whilst females are duller with little to no yellow.

Please research before you breed (especially if you don't even know the difference between male and female).. check out www.cockatielcottage.net ... the two birds you have may also be related.

Answer 6

to tell the truth you use to be able to tell by the color but that is not true cause people breed cockatiels and than you really cant tell the only why to tell is to have them sexed which most birds die when trying to do cause it is a very hard surgery to do or you Can go to the vet and blood sex them which is not always a true reading but most of the time it is true

Answer 7

in the female the red patches on the face will be very light and she will have barring on her tail underneath but in some mutations of the cockatiel you might have to have an experienced breeder to see or even dna sexing good luck

Answer 8

It's really simple, males have no barring on the underside of their tails and females do. Also females are more dull compared to males especially their cheecks.

Answer 9

I thought you had to get them sexed by blood test. But I also heard that the yellow colored ones were female and the grey ones were males.

Answer 10

The males talk and whistle and have SOLID colored tail feathers, A female will only tweet and have grey on her face and stripes on her tail.