Ned is three weeks old!

Ned is three weeks old today!! He is doing wonderfully - he is growing and has already reached an adult weight of proud 53 grams, and started growing in feathers. He is increasingly active, alert and goes have a walk in the nest box. I caught him today sitting in front of the nest hole and peaking outside - little boy is curious!

Gender and genetics of yellow lovebirds

In general, you can not tell with certainty what gender is your lovebird without a DNA test, or a confirmation through breeding (you have a couple, they get eggs and they hatch. Only when all these three conditions are fullfilled, you know the gender for sure). Except for some cases in yellow lovebirds.

Three types of yellow lovebirds are: Ino (also known as lutino), pallid and cinnamon. All of the three are sex-linked genes. In order to know the gender of the yellow lovebird, you need to know the colours of the parents, otherwise you can not tell the gender of you birds. And, unfortunately, it works only in some cases.