how do you find the gender of love birds?

Question

i have two and am finding it difficult to find the difference

Answer 1

Love birds a identical externally and you cannot tell the diference with out internal examination or a DNA test.
A DNA test can be done by sending a feather with blood in it away to a laboratory.

Answer 2

The people that are telling you the female sings...are wrong. A its usually the male and b lovebirds don't sing...canarys do. The only ways to tell are 1 by waiting to see if they ever lay eggs which may not even work because not all females lay eggs or 2 getting a DNA test done. You can either do it through an avian vet which can be pricy or you can go through a lab in the back of bird talk magazine and it costs $20 per bird. If you want more info email me.

Answer 3

I had exactly that problem until Tom laid the eggs and Nicole fed her seed-puke. You can send feathers to a DNA testing lab. It really is that difficult. They are not like budgies with a blue cere on the male and a pinkybrown one on the female, sadly.

I assumed the clever one was the female and called him Nicole. I was very wrong. They hated each other when we first got them hence the names.

Can I just mention the cere again, people keep saying about the blue and brown thing, that's budgies. Not lovebirds. They're both pale pink, the same as the beak. Doh.

Actually realised who the male was when Nicole started rodgering Tom for increasingly long and intense sessions. Most embarassing when you have guests.

Answer 4

My you have had some very unhelpful answers, I hope this is better.

It is actually very difficult to tell. With our pair we put a nesting box into the cage with them. They went through all the motions of mating and laying eggs. But after a bit we figured out that they were actually both laying so they were both female. One of them laid eggs that were slightly more rounded than the other and none of them ever hatched. Lesbian love birds. Go figure.

My suggestion is to give them a nesting box and see what happens.

Answer 5

Lovebirds cannot be visually sexed, and sometimes females will lay eggs by themselves (without the assistance of a male). To confirm that your second bird (who didn't lay the egg) is a male, you can take him to a vet to get DNA sexed. (They take a small blood sample or sometimes a feather, and send it off to a lab where the DNA structure is analyized to determine the gender of the bird).....................

Answer 6

Love birds are monomorphic, which ability you won't be able to tell the sex using any seen recommendations. neither is the "pelvis" technique a sensible guess or a secure guess ! the purely authentic thanks to make sure their sex is by a DNA attempt. you could both do it your self and despatched blood out for finding out or carry them to the vet. the archives on the thanks to do it your self is in maximum poultry interest magazines ie BirdTalk

Answer 7

The male have blue above the beak in the nose area. The female is usually pink.

Answer 8

usually the one that sing more is female, or if they don't sing then a lot of different birds are identified by either there color of the bill or the brightness of the disk that is by their eyes. Most males are brighter colored then the females.

Answer 9

The ones that sing the most are usually the females

Answer 10

You have to do a blood test . My sister works for a Pet Store and she has a set of them herself .