A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

[Tropical]

I told a GCC breeder I would love to get a GCC but prefer a male because I don't want to have to potentially deal with egg binding issues and egg laying. I was told GCCs do not get egg binding like tiels do... I feel this is not correct!? Why would breeders say such thing?

 

[TacoNTiki]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

I wanted a male too for this reason. Especially since I already have to worry about this with my female tiel. I have been told it is not as prevalent as in tiels, but I don't know how correct this is. When we met Tiki, my plan changed as I didn't care if tiki is male or female, we loved her/him. The breeder offered to DNA but i thought there was no way we could choose another if tiki turned out to be female. We still don't know, but I like to use 'him'.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

No, you were misinformed, unfortunately. ANY hen 'may' get egg bound.

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

That's what I figured... I knew this already just thought it was very strange to hear breeder telling me this over the phone. I even asked the breeder if they were "100% positive" and they were adamant.

I was also told the season is over and it looks like I now have to wait until next year around April to get a just weaned GCC I wouldn't be ready to get one until at least 2 or 3 months from now either way.

 

[Birdman666]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

No, you were misinformed, unfortunately. ANY hen 'may' get egg bound.

Absolutely wrong information.

ALL FEMALE BIRDS, REGARDLESS OF SPECIES... can become egg bound.

Turtles too, by the way.

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

Another odd thing this breeder told me was that she can control the gender of the GCCs being hatched. That sounds crazy to me. Breeder said ALL 100% of her yellow sided GGC babies are ALWAYS female because of the way she breeds them. This doesn't apply to her regular GCCs... does this sound as though it could possibly be correct?

I've contacted several GCC breeders and it seems I "missed the boat" and the season is indeed over and now I must wait until next year around April to get my just weaned GCC. I don't want to have to wait that long! Bummer I must get a just weaned GCC as I want the GCC to grow up with my tiel.

 

[riddick07]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

I think there have been studies on influencing gender during incubation but I'm not sure if anything has ever been proven effective. I do think I read some where that there was a study on zebra finches and that well feed females were more likely to have females. Something to do with which gender was more likely to survive and further the species but that was more the bird itself being able to decide what the egg will be not any human influence. In many reptiles gender can be influenced during incubation....not that that is helpful

 

[amjokai]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

All hens can be egg bound.

Most green cheeks breed in spring/summer in the USA but some breed out of season.




Yes What she is telling you about the sex is correct. Yellow sided is a sex linked mutation. If the male carries it but the female doesn't only his daughters will be visually yellow sided.
Females can not be split to or "hide" sex linked mutations.

 

[riddick07]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

Ah I thought you meant all her pairs and that she was messing with the eggs...not just pairing certain mutations together for genetics.

And any animal that lays eggs can be egg bound. Snakes (the ones that lay eggs) can be egg bound too which is why I'm unlikely to ever breed my pretty hypocalico beauty snake...no matter how pretty her babies would be....

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

So I'm order for the yellow sided GCC to be a male baby... how would its parents be paired? The father has to be a yellow sided and the mother be a cinnamon? I'm trying to figure this out =)

 

[amjokai]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

To get visual male yellow sided and visual female yellow sided

Mother has to be visual yellow sided (females can't be split to sex linked mutations)

Male has to be visual or split (hiding) yellow sided.

 

[amjokai]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

If mother is yellow sided and father is normal- not yellow sided or split yellow sided.
Then females will be normal
And males will be normal split yellow sided

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

Thanks, I see.... I think :52: =)

I've noticed some yellow sided GCCs have darker feet whereas a lot of others have very pale feet just as pale as pineapple GCCs. I LOVE the darker feet... is it basically a "crapshoot" whether the yellowed sided will have darker colored feet or is there a certain way to pair the parents in order to produce yellow sided GCCs that have the darker feet? I know yellow sided ones of course will NEVER have feet as dark as normal GCCs... but I've noticed that some yellow sided GCCs definitely have darker feet than other yellow sided ones.

 

[Mimsy01]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

I wonder if she was meaning egg binding is not as prevalent with gcc's and tiels? I have no idea if that would be true either, but even to the lay person it seems obvious all females that lay eggs could get egg bound.

I assumed she is telling the sex by sex linked mutations as well.

@Riddick-some snakes don't lay eggs?

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

I wonder if she was meaning egg binding is not as prevalent with gcc's and tiels? I have no idea if that would be true either, but even to the lay person it seems obvious all females that lay eggs could get egg bound.

I assumed she is telling the sex by sex linked mutations as well.

@Riddick-some snakes don't lay eggs?

Her words were very clear saying GCCs never get egg binding this is only problem tiels etc have so I have "nothing to worry about". Said egg binding with tiels is common... but is not a problem with GCCs. Says she has been breeder for 30 yrs... she could possibly think this is the case since perhaps because it never happened any of her GCCs... same goes for female GCCs laying eggs unless there is nest box available.... but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen! For this reason, I think I'm still more comfortable with a male GCC.

 

[Staples915]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

Tropical,
Where was this breed for GCC?? She told you her season was over?? and FYI any hen that lays eggs can get egg bound. To difFuse this tho proper diet and humidity among other things can and usually does prevent this.

 

[Tropical]

Re: A GCC breeder told me female GCCs cannot get "egg binding"... is this true?

Tropical,
Where was this breed for GCC?? She told you her season was over?? and FYI any hen that lays eggs can get egg bound. To difFuse this tho proper diet and humidity among other things can and usually does prevent this.

This breeder is in south Florida (Fort Lauderdale).... sadly, I've put getting a GCC on hold because I'm too worried about my tiel getting injured by a GCC... even though they would never be kept in same cage of course.

I'm getting another tiel next week... I still plan to get a GCC but not until the very distant future.... I will then own 3 birds which is the absolute max number of birds I could ever handle.