Sex my African gray

[dee1984]

Hi guys im from the uk does anybody no how u dna test ya bird plzz il put a picture of him on hes a very big parrot and dark courled and a very red tail

 

[dee1984]

Here is charlie

 

[dee1984]

 

[lotosha]

I would say it's a male.

 

[dee1984]

I think hes male I dont no how to get him dna tested or I wud my friends got one and its not half the size of him thanks tho

 

[dee1984]

This is mine

 

[dee1984]

This is my friends much smaller bird altogether

 

[dee1984]

This is the smaller bird

 

[dee1984]

The smaller bird

 

[dee1984]

The smaller bird again

 

[RockysMom]

I'am gonna guess female , she looks like Baby our female grey , our female is much lighter in color then our male

 

[dee1984]

Thanks rockysmom no its 3 years old but it is small

 

[Birdman666]

DNA is really the only reliable way.

And there are two sub-species of Congo African Grays (i.e. red tails)

The smaller birds come from the coastal regions of Africa. (aka "coastal" or "normal" grays) (350-ish grams)

The significantly larger birds come from the interior regions of Africa. ("Silver" grays) (450+ grams - My "silver" gray is PRETTY HUGE at 560 grams)

So, size isn't the indicator of the bird's sex, it's the indicator of where the bird's parents were captured and imported from.

Do a DNA test to find out if it's a boy or a girl.

 

[dee1984]

Thanks birdman

 

[Shayner]

I agree with birdman a dna test is the only real way to find out if you have a male or a female. Its not that easy to visually sex greys and you can never be 100% sure by visual sexing, a dna test is the only way to positivly sex greys!

 

[Zaxx_x]

Usually like just with my greys - the boy is darker I'm not sure of that helped or not beaus we hav a boy and a girl and the boy is darker and just in case some vets do it u can do it surgically or some places u send them blood

 

[KevH]

try avian biotech the DNA ur bird they send a kit out for u and all u av to do is pull a few feathers off his chest and send them off it dosant really hurt him think it costs £15 -£20