[CoffeyC]

This is 7 month old baby Shadow I am wondering if this is a male or female and what kind of cockateil is he or she.

 

[Misstiel]

Would you be able to get a better picture of its face? To me, it looks like a male if the face is bright yellow. Its mutation is pearl and if it is a male, it will lose its pearl markings. Have you noticed if it has been losing any of its pearls?

 

[CoffeyC]

Not really only had the cockateil for four weeks View attachment 94413

 

[CoffeyC]

Would you be able to get a better picture of its face? To me, it looks like a male if the face is bright yellow. Its mutation is pearl and if it is a male, it will lose its pearl markings. Have you noticed if it has been losing any of its

 

[Misstiel]

Yes, that is most definitely a male, and he will lose all of his pearls. Sometimes (it is very rare though) they will keep some of their pearls.

 

[Friday]

That is a male Pearl Cockatiel

 

[VIVAAN]

Looks Like a Male Pearl Cockatiel.

 

[Jo Hess]

Looking like a boy, but as really young, could surprise you. Will lose the pearl on first molt if a boy. Takes some months for first molt out but will reveal all. Patience is a virtue. My first tiel (girl) was heavily pearled and kept it until she died at 4 1/2 yrs due to egg laying and binding for me as her owner. I was her mate at the time.

 

[Kazzi4]

This is 7 month old baby Shadow I am wondering if this is a male or female and what kind of cockateil is he or she. View attachment 94411
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At 7 months, it’s too early to tell, as your bird won’t have gone through it molt into its adult plumage. This usually happens between 8-12 months. Are you in contact with the birds breeder? Only your bird is a pearl, which like ino and cinnamon, is a sex linked gene passed from father to daughter and the only way to breed males pearls is if the mother is also a pearl. This is why there are a lot more pearl females than males. As examples: put a male pearl to a normal female, all the baby pearls will be female and all the males will be non visual/split for pearl.
Put a male pearl to a female pearl and all the babies in the clutch both male and females will be pearl.
Put a normal male to a female pearl and all the babies will be normals. But the males will be split for pearl. Females cannot be split for a sex linked gene, they either are or they aren’t.
Also, when your baby goes through its molt, if it is a male it will loose the pearls, but some males do keep a ghosting of them.
The cheek patches aren’t a good way to sex a bird as I’ve had females with brighter cheek patches. Singing etc - females are just as capable as males to sing, whistle and talk, they are just less likely to do so.
An, accurate way, you can sex your bird is via the pelvic bones. They are between the birds legs and are shaped like two knuckles. You don’t have to press hard to feel them so won’t hurt the bird. In males these bones are closer together, in females there is a gap just bigger than the size of an egg, this gap is to allow the egg to pass through.