RTPF male or female?

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FiveG
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What do you guys think? I have heard it whistle but no trilling yet.
I thought who better to ask than the experts.
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Gonz
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E Orix
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Personal opinion cockbird, not in great feather but as a rule if there are a couple of red feathers
around the vent it generally indicates a cockbird.
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Tiaris
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likely hen IMO.
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mr skeeter
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looks like a hen with the break in the red on the side ov the eye.
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I would say poor quality or young cock bird. ..going by size of bib and red vent feathers. .. :thumbup:
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Hen bird.
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Craig52
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vettepilot_6 wrote:I would say poor quality or young cock bird. ..going by size of bib and red vent feathers. .. :thumbup:
I tend to agree VP, the bird has still got a lot of moulting out to do. Craig
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Gonz, please be sure to post back if it trills or lays an egg...this will allow us to hone our sexing skills. :?:

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If it is a male it must be young & not fully coloured otherwise so poorly coloured that it shouldn't be bred from (again IMO only).
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I go by the amount of red behind the eye and the width of the black band in front of the eye. So i'd be calling that a hen, UNLESS its still colouring up, in which case it could turn out to be a cock. Do you have any other RFPF's? In sunlight the cocks will be a much more luminous red in my (rather limited) experience.
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