sexing birds by feeling the pubic bones

[pyrodarknessanny]

im woundering if this is an acurate way to "sex" IRNS and other simalaur sized birds

long stor short, the person who tourght me how to use a crop needle and a lot of the other stuff about birds was "old schooled"

he breed a lot of peach face and masked love birds and said that the best way to sex them was by feeling the hip bones ( a hen bird has wider spacing than a cock bird)

i have found that it can work for cockiteals as well for the mutations that are hard to tell visualy.

but dose that hold any accuracy for any other birds?

[Molossus2]

You mean the vent bone test...ie the gap is supposedly wider in hens? This method is age old and used to be common practise among old generation pigeon fanciers.
I am an old school pigeon/psittacine fancier and I certainly do not advocate this. We are far advanced in surgical /dna sexing to take the guesswork out of bird pairing. Forget it.

[pyrodarknessanny]

ok thanks, yeah i was just woundering if this was true onr not,
again just something the persoen who got me into birds once said.