Okay! I just got a quaker parrot, and i want to know if is male and female?

Question

thanks...

Answer 1

Most people will tell you to have it DNA sexed, but if you feel it's bones where it poops out of, and they were close together, its a male, if they are far apart almost to the sides of your finger, then it's a female.  

Answer 2

bring her to petsmart and ask if its a male or female

Answer 3

You cannot compare your bird to  what?  You have nothing to compare beak width or pelvic bones width.  Petsmart is the stupidest answer I ever heard. They know nothing about birds.  Geez.

Get BirdTalk magazine and read the ads in back.  Send in a feather or a drop of blood to a lab and they can tell you for sure.

Why do you need to know?  Just love her/him.  Okay.

Answer 4

The only absolute way is to take it to a vet for a DNA blood test. I've seen it posted someplace that a male's beak is wider at the top than a female's but you'd have to literally make a side-by-side comparison between the two genders, and with a single bird, that's not possible.

Short of waiting to see if he/she lays an egg, you HAVE to have a blood test done.

I've had three Quakers in my lifetime (not all at the same time) and the last one lived with me for 13 years. I'm fairly certain he was a "he" because he never laid an egg.