pearl baby - father pearl/mother not

[des68]

Please help - I'm trying to buy a female bird for my daughter's birthday tomorrow (:wacko:) and I have found one through a breeder that is a whiteface pearl pied. I have been told that because only the father carries the pearl gene it is definitely female.

I have been trying to figure out cockatiel genetics but I'm stumped on the whole matter. I'm hoping someone here has a better handle on the sex-linked genes... and can let me know if I should go ahead and buy this bird!

Thanks VERY much!

[Laura]

Hi there welcome to the forum :) Pearl is a sex linked mutation so yes if only the father carries the pearl then all babies will be female, a female can not be split to Pearl, the mother has to visually be a pearl, hope this helps.

[des68]

Fantastic - you just helped me make my daughter very happy! I really appreciate the second opinion on this one... and I'm sure I'll be back!:D

[birdieness]

Laura is correcty. You wont have to worry about this baby loosing her pearling.

[xxxSpikexxx]

Iam not good at genetics either :blush: Hope to see pics of the new baby girl when you come back :)

[Bea]

Definitely a little girl. :D I'll be looking forward to seeing her when you bring her home!

[CindyM]

I was helped out with this type of problem by Allen he gave me this great web site. kristenmunson.com/cockatiels/blue.html you can put in what the male and female are and it will tell you what the babies should be. I know you have the bird now and I think it should be a female too. But I thought you might like to go look.