8 week old parrolets are feathered. As soon as they have feathers, you can tell gender. There are some color mutations where you can't really tell gender at all, but feathered parrotlets can be gendered.
2 Month Old baby Male or Female
I recently called a bird store to see if they had Parrotlets. He had 2 month old babies but he said that at that age he couldn’t tell if they were male or female, is this true?
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How do you tell which one is male or female by looking at their feathers?8 week old parrolets are feathered. As soon as they have feathers, you can tell gender. There are some color mutations where you can't really tell gender at all, but feathered parrotlets can be gendered.
Kathy, males have blue feathers on their wings, females don't. But with some it is not so easy to determine sex, and a DNA test is needed.
"White" or "blue" mutations can be challenging to figure out. The normal green parrotlet can be gendered once the feathers appear - blue on the wing edge means a boy, no blue is a girl. The yellows also are normally easier to figure out. Even on the blues, the wing edge on a boy I think is a darker blue than the rest of the bird. "White" parrotlets are the only ones I know of that you might need to DNA sex to know. But an 8 week old parrotlet is fully feathered, so if it is possible to determine by feather, it should be clear already. Tumi at 8 weeks old looked pretty much as he does now - I think he is a couple of grams bigger, but his feathers are the same overall look.
Thank you"White" or "blue" mutations can be challenging to figure out. The normal green parrotlet can be gendered once the feathers appear - blue on the wing edge means a boy, no blue is a girl. The yellows also are normally easier to figure out. Even on the blues, the wing edge on a boy I think is a darker blue than the rest of the bird. "White" parrotlets are the only ones I know of that you might need to DNA sex to know. But an 8 week old parrotlet is fully feathered, so if it is possible to determine by feather, it should be clear already. Tumi at 8 weeks old looked pretty much as he does now - I think he is a couple of grams bigger, but his feathers are the same overall look.
Pip is a blue/aqua/grayish mix. His under wing feathers are a darker, bright blue. He also has that brilliant color on his lower back by his butt and streaks of that color going back from his eyes. He’s a boy for sure.
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