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Post by dianapalmer on Apr 2, 2014 21:17:02 GMT
Emma was chirping quite a bit this afternoon. Normally she's so quiet! I got to looking at her, and I think she's getting some new feathers around her beak and on her head that seem a little bit more yellow. Is there any chance she's a he? She's about seven months old. I think she's a cinnamon recessive pied. Here's a pic I just took under natural light:  |
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Apr 2, 2014 23:08:14 GMT
aww Emma is so pretty  I wouldn't have a clue |
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Post by Pammy on Apr 4, 2014 3:28:23 GMT
I don't have an educated answer, but in my gut I feel that Emma is a girl. Piper certainly thinks of her as one hot mama.  |
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Post by kmic on Apr 4, 2014 11:36:34 GMT
I'd agree with Pammy. I don't know anything about cockatiel genders, but I'd imagine that they (the birds) do. So from Piper and Emma's behaviour, I think Emma is a girl.
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Post by dianapalmer on Apr 4, 2014 14:47:16 GMT
Haha! Yes, she is a Hot Mama!
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Post by Sarah on Apr 4, 2014 23:01:47 GMT
Has Emma already experienced her first molt? If she had, and her face is still mostly grey, then she is female. Females may have bright yellow feathers around the nares and even in small blazes on the face.
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Post by roxhum on Apr 7, 2014 13:53:36 GMT
A little off subject but when I was at the pet store with the hand fed budgies they had a white face like my Pearl, but he was an adult male and his whole head was white. I think I prefer the female white face to the male. I like the male grays best with the bright yellow and orange and the contrast of the darker gray.
Just looked out the window and my morning sky is a baby blue and lite pink. Interestingly in the time it took to type that it has turned to a coastal grey overcast sky.
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Post by dianapalmer on Apr 7, 2014 14:21:58 GMT
I once asked my father what color he was going to paint a room. He said, "Sky blue pink."
Has anyone else ever heard this expression?
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Post by roxhum on Apr 8, 2014 14:13:46 GMT
I have never heard that expression. What did it mean.
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Post by dianapalmer on Apr 8, 2014 15:01:11 GMT
I think it was my father's way of being silly. I thought of it, because you mentioned the sky was baby blue and bright pink.
There are a lot of expressions my family had that I never hear, and I wonder where they came from. If my grandmother caught me scratching my behind, she would say , "Oh, butter's getting cheap!"
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Apr 8, 2014 21:23:19 GMT
lol
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Post by Pammy on Apr 10, 2014 3:56:16 GMT
I never heard those expressions, but my grandma would refer to at-home choring clothes as "sloucher janes." Anybody ever hear that one? I never say it out loud, but I do think of choring clothes as sloucher janes, in memory of my beloved grandmother.
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I wouldn't have a clue
