How can you tell a cockateils gender?

Question

My birds just had two babys and they're about two months old now. I've had birds for seven years and I was always able to tell their genders by their uh.. special spots. I remember that if the bones or whatever were together, its a boy and if its apart, they're a girl. But the girl sounded like she was singing a little today. so I started wondering if maybe I got it mixed up.
Which one is it?

Answer 1

There is one way visually but this is not effective ussually the males have a Pointed tail the females have a more flat tail shape like a paddle

the tail thing works often but not always. it does not work with the eyering species I've heard (from breeders). with pelvic sexing, please please get someone who knows how to do it properly if you are going to have anyone do it, because you could end up hurting them.

I've had great results with palpal pelvic sexing, but it's a good idea to practice on a definitely sexed pair, first, to know what you're looking for. We bought a pair that we were told were two females ... One laid eggs. The other didn't. I sexed them pelvically -- they're keepng their first clutch warm right now!

... Well, one is. The other is behaving like the guard of the Emerald City (I will post in a new thread: "You can't see the wizard!")

To sex using pelvic palpation, you try to hold the bird comfortably on its back, using a towel around the neck and torso, if you have to, and feel for the gap where the pelvic bones come together, just under the cloaca. Don't worry! It isn't gross. Just make sure you don't "go there".

Once you've located it, note how wide the gap feels, and then depress it very lightly with your thumb. If the female pelvic region feels wider, and it "gives" a little when depressed (like it may have to to pass an egg), you probably have a female. If it doesn't, you probably have a male or a juvenile female. It's important that when you try this, the birds are adults.

It's more reliable to go to the vet. I think from now on that I will do both, since banding and lab errors happen -- I won't surgically sex them. That's just me. It looks terrifying.

Answer 2

You can sex cockatails by looking at their faces.
Females have mainly grey faces with only traces of yellow around the beak, eyes, and forehead.
Their cheek patches appear duller since there is a wash of grey over the orange and their crests are grey.
They have yellow spots on the underside of their flight feathers and conspicuous yellow and grey barring on their tails.
After their first molt at 6 to 8 months males lack the tail barring and the flight feather spots but have a bright yellow face and 'bib'. Their crests are mainly yellow with grey only at the tip. The cheek patches are a bright orange since there is no grey there to dull them.

Answer 3

There really is no way to tell just from looking at them. There are a lot of myths out there about coloring, and frequency of singing/whisteling. These are never full proof. The only way to know for sure is to have them blood tested at a vets office.

Answer 4

You can't usually tell, but with the Pied variety, if they keep their spots, after a year, it's a female. Otherwise, you have to have DNA sexing done. Females and males sing.

Answer 5

check the cere (coloured spot) above the beak if it's a bluish colour it's a male and if it's a tanish colour it's a female.

Answer 6

usally the boys head and beak is wider than the females

Answer 7

In my opinion the best way to sex a bird that isn't visually sexed is get it DNA'd..

Answer 8

i dunno if it workz on the cockateils but it worked on my parakeet ther is a lil thingy under the beak if it is pinkish it means it is a girl if it is bluish green boy!