Gabe's a girl!

[asterroc]

DNA sexing results came back today on Gabriel. She's female!

As mentioned before, Gabe's a lutino cockatiel, which cannot be visually sexed with complete reliability, though there can be clues. The things that led me to guess so were faint spots on the undersides of flight feathers, faint stripes on undersides of tail feathers, and faint pearling on her back (so she's actually lutino pearled). DNA sexing confirmed my suspicion: it's a girl!

Now I know to keep making sure she doesn't get triggers to lay eggs, and to make sure she gets a calcium block in case she ever does start laying. Her name is remaining Gabriel though - gender of name doesn't make a difference to her, and I find it amusing.

Gratuitous photo!



Doesn't she look all sorts of coy there? You can actually see the pearling in this photo pretty well - it's the yellow splotches on her shoulders.

X-posted to my blog, parrot_lovers, and cockatiels.

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[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

What a pretty girl!