does pelvis shape tell you the sex of an IRN?

texbird · Post by **texbird** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:38 pm

The lady we got our new IRN from said that it was a female based on the shape of the pelvis. She claimed that females had a wider pelvis and males had a narrow one.

No DNA done. no ring - an albino. 20 months old.

The bird ACTS like a female...

So myth or fact?

Donna · Post by **Donna** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:50 pm

To a well trained person they can feel the pelvic bones but it's still not a 100%. If your IRN is albino male it will not get a ring. Best way to really know if it's a male or female is DNA or surgicaly sexed.

Donna

Mikaela · Post by **Mikaela** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:45 am

Donna wrote:To a well trained person they can feel the pelvic bones but it's still not a 100%. If your IRN is albino male it will not get a ring. Best way to really know if it's a male or female is DNA or surgicaly sexed.
Donna

Could not have said it better myself. My breeder, very fine breeder, sexed Baby this way. 100% sure female. I told him from day One my Baby was a boy. He would laugh and say 'wishful thinking, hun... its a girl.

My girl now has a big ol ring. DNA is the ONLY way. Short of that one might as well dangle a wedding ring over the birds head to sex it as the ol wives tell goes. Thats just about as accurate.