Very often as pets the people get birds. Buy by it spacious cages, convenient capacious feeding troughs and a tasty forage. But sooner or later before all owners there is a question of sex of parrots, especially when there is a need for their crossing for receiving posterity.
Instruction
1. At early age it is necessary to look at a voskovitsa is a small site of skin which is located directly over klyuviky a parrot. At females it has hardly noticeable blue shade with a white border around nasal hollows. At males color varies from pink to violet, it can have a smooth surface and shine. In process of growing, color of a voskovitsa changes and becomes at females brown-white with a gray fringing of a beak, at males of voskoviyets changes till indigo color and has brightly brilliant outflow.
2. That in to define its sex, it is necessary to look at existence of a mask which always indicates small age of the pet. The mask of yellow color on the head which is absent at young parrots is characteristic of budgerigars. At early age (3-4 months) the parrots have the wavy color of feathers beginning from a voskovitsa.
3. When the male or a female is 4-6 months old and they become adult representatives of birds, it is possible to define easily their sex on a color of feathers and a voskovitsa. So, gets a light blue shade from a male of green or blue plumage of voskoviyets, unlike males which color of feathers of a yellow, white or spotty color. In this case color of a voskovitsa remains to the same, as well as at young age. Adult parrots have female always a voskovitsa of brown color, she is invariable all term of life of a parrot.
4. If on a voskovitsa it is impossible to define a sex of a parrot, in cases when the voskovitsa colourless or its color is shown at more mature age, then the analysis of DNA by results of which know a sex of a parrot with reliability of 99% becomes. This analysis is very effective at doubts in establishment of a sex of a parrot, his results are always confirmed with approach of a maturity when it is already authentically possible to judge the field on other signs.