Hello everyone,
I joined to ask few questions I have in mind and hope someone with more experience can provide answers. So I have lutino IRN for about 4 years now so she must be she for sure by now right? She often however does heart shaped wings, pins her eyes and enlonges her neck while doing this lol which is why we thought for long time that she is male. But ring never showed up. Now we got 2nd lutino girl (as we're told). She is supposed to be exact same age as our girl but these 2 birds don't look or sound alike. New bird has squre shaped head, she's larger and has very visibly larger beak than our girl. Their sounds are nothing alike as well. Ours screams so loud that our ears ring sometimes lol new girl is a lot more quiet. Her sound has different tone and is not even closely loud. So I'm confused now, is there a chance that new one is actually male and they're wrong about the age? Or that she's even older and grew larger over time? I'm really confused now, don't know what to think of them. Also they both heart shaped wings at each other at some point during first introduction. Our regular girl is anxious and would clearly attack new one if she could touch her as she launched at cage bars towards her a few times. New one seems very calm and uninterested in her mostly. My intention isn't to have them together right now, she might stay with us for few days but I got her for my mom in fact. But I'd like to know if there is a chance for two hens to get along if we would need to have them together some time again? So I'd like to hear other people's opinions of the new bird and potential of her not being her but him. Also, ours is hand fed bird and new one is aviary bird. She had home however, but clearly they didn't work much with her, they said she bites and she doesn't talk while ours learned some words and is cuddly with my bf but she'll bite me lol also I noticed new bird doesn't have flying feathers on 1 wing and I'm not sure why? Ours lost them while still very young but that happened only once and after that she never lost so much from 1 wing that she wouldn't be able to fly. Is this normal for this bird, should we get her some more vitamins to help with feathers? Seems like she ate mostly sunflower seeds based on food we got with her.
I joined to ask few questions I have in mind and hope someone with more experience can provide answers. So I have lutino IRN for about 4 years now so she must be she for sure by now right? She often however does heart shaped wings, pins her eyes and enlonges her neck while doing this lol which is why we thought for long time that she is male. But ring never showed up. Now we got 2nd lutino girl (as we're told). She is supposed to be exact same age as our girl but these 2 birds don't look or sound alike. New bird has squre shaped head, she's larger and has very visibly larger beak than our girl. Their sounds are nothing alike as well. Ours screams so loud that our ears ring sometimes lol new girl is a lot more quiet. Her sound has different tone and is not even closely loud. So I'm confused now, is there a chance that new one is actually male and they're wrong about the age? Or that she's even older and grew larger over time? I'm really confused now, don't know what to think of them. Also they both heart shaped wings at each other at some point during first introduction. Our regular girl is anxious and would clearly attack new one if she could touch her as she launched at cage bars towards her a few times. New one seems very calm and uninterested in her mostly. My intention isn't to have them together right now, she might stay with us for few days but I got her for my mom in fact. But I'd like to know if there is a chance for two hens to get along if we would need to have them together some time again? So I'd like to hear other people's opinions of the new bird and potential of her not being her but him. Also, ours is hand fed bird and new one is aviary bird. She had home however, but clearly they didn't work much with her, they said she bites and she doesn't talk while ours learned some words and is cuddly with my bf but she'll bite me lol also I noticed new bird doesn't have flying feathers on 1 wing and I'm not sure why? Ours lost them while still very young but that happened only once and after that she never lost so much from 1 wing that she wouldn't be able to fly. Is this normal for this bird, should we get her some more vitamins to help with feathers? Seems like she ate mostly sunflower seeds based on food we got with her.