Newest addition to the clutch

I was waiting for this baby for two days already. I would take the egg, put it close to my ear and listen the baby scratch the egg shell. Yesterday morning it started making sounds too, but it hatched only late this morning. What a precious little thing!!

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.