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does pelvis shape tell you the sex of an IRN?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:38 pm
by texbird
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?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:50 pm
by Donna
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
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:45 am
by Mikaela
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.
