Hello, from canada!

[meghanxx4]

hello everyone, my name is Meghan. I'm 15 years old, and i have 2 cockatiels at the moment, and have had 3 budgies in the past. I am also hoping to get a sun conure in the future(sometime this year) and after that possibly a green cheek onure or eclectus(still deciding but not really important right now anway.) I will post some pictures of my cockatiels tomorrow as i have i to go soon. although heres alittle about them, i have two(like i said above), im pretty sure they are both females, i know for sure one is. Tara, the lutino tiel is for sure a female, and Shylo, the whitefaced cinnamon split pied , i dont know for sure, although people have told me that its female by the patterns of the tail a wings. if you know anything about sexing cockatiels visually i can show you pics of the tail and wings.i know the greys have like dark cheeks if there male, and cinnamons its something to do with the pattern on there wings.thats all for now ill post pics tomorrow!

(by the way excuse my typing, i type too fast and sometimes make alot od mistakes, if you ever cant understand what i wrote just tell me retype it dont worrey i wont feel affended at all)

[Monica]

Welcome to BB!

First of all, how old are your two cockatiels? If we know their age, we can better help you in sexing them. Two, sexing a cinnamon is the same way as sexing a normal would be.... Both males and females will have spots and bars on them when young (unless they are of certain mutations), however I have heard that mature lutinos can be sexed the same way via tail and flight feathers as normals can... it's just a tad harder!

Photos would help of face, wings (opened and on the inside), and underneath the tail feathers. Don't forget to post their ages!

[meghanxx4]

ok, ill post the pics after this, but they were born september 19 and 20th(tara was born 19, and shylo was born 20)... i just ahve to wait for the pics to be unploaded athen ill post.

[Monica]

That would make both cockatiels about 5 months old... Have they gone through their adult molt yet? If not you may not be able to truely tell until they do. Do you know the parents mutations? Or can you get a hold of the breeder to find out the parents mutations? If we know the parents mutations then we could better figure out the sex of your cockatiels, since both lutino and cinnamon tend to be sex-linked mutations.

[habs71]

Welcome aboard! Where abouts are you in Canada??


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[catschair]

Hi Meghan! Welcome to Bird Board. I have two tiels of my own and am babysitting four others (have a few other birds too, but more about that later).