Gender?

Sfraker

Songster
5 Years
Feb 17, 2014
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Western NC
This keet is 5 weeks old and is doing a double peeping sound all the time. It sounds like a keet version of the adult female buck-wheat noise.
Could this mean it is a female? This is only my second batch of keets, so I'm still learning. :)

http://youtu.be/ibutESQz2x8
 
The only reliable way I've found to sex by vocalization prior to adulthood is that te male keets are way way more talkative in general. Both sexes make the two syllable sounds as juvenilles but the males are decidedly more boisterous and talkative.they are like excited puppies who never stop talking especially when they see me.
Also, my boys have had ruffled, crooked feathers that stick up here and there like little crack heads in dire need of a hairbrush (lol) by about 3 weeks of age while my females have smooth feathers that lay flat. My boys have all been smaller and more interested in being held/pet, and a lot more rambunctious/less cautious as if they don't know the concept of danger or fear. This may sound vague but it had been such a definite and pronounced disparity between the two genders that I now intentionally select the playful, goofy, extroverted keets at the store when I'm looking for a male. The feathering should be very obvious by 5 weeks. Also look for a more narrow space between the eyes when facing a keet head on and that will be your boy.
 

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