why do half of my baby love birds have black feathers and white feathers have the other?
i have regular lovebirds and now six new born babies. have helped to have white and half dark gray / peach feathers all over body. differance between male and female?
My pair of lovebirds are the Dutch Blue Peach face and my babies start out with light yellow down Which seems to turn white and then to gray. I am not a serious breeder Sun Someone may have a better answer but I think this is normal. As far as boys and girls you can not tell from looking at them my best guess has been once they get a few months old the females seem to be larger than the males. DNA testing is the only sure way to know. I do feel the pelvic area on my birds and was able to successfully pick a male for my female that way but they have to be at least 5-6 months old for that to work. The bones in the pelvis are tight and close together on males and females on further apart. Can you do this on your proven pair to see what I am talking about. Good luck with your new babies. . I have one coming out of the nest for hand feeding today. . . so cute!
I dont know maybe because the parents would be gray feathers mixed together and I guess maybe the others are lucky
No. It’s not the difference between the sexes. Lovebirds are not dimorphic, and there is no way to tell the difference between male and female lovebirds visually. The only accurate way to DetermineApplicationTrust sex is through dna testing. The chicks have different colored down because they are different color mutations.
That’s just color mutation-the only way to be 100% sure about the sex of your bird is to have DNA testing done.
The parents of your your present pair have both be split for various colors, and these have been passed on to your new chicks, as for sexing them unless you know of the parents, even parents going back 3-4 generations you will not be able to visually sex them. There are species of birds that love can be visually sexed, these are Abyssinian Love Birds, and the Madagascar Lovebird. As an ex breeder of a number of species of Lovebirds over 40 years, unless you know your birds genetic line then it will be DN A. testing.