Bennie

[CamCamPup33]

laid an egg! Im still in shock! LOL.

[flamepony12]

.....aaaaaaaahhhhh

-dies-

hahahahaha. woww xD well.. GUESS HE'S A BONNIE NOW O_O;

can we have pictures then.. please? c:

[Logan]

Uh oh!!!!!!!!

Sorry Bennie! You have to be the most handsome female cockatiel I've ever seen!!!!!

Sorry, Amber! All we could do was guess!

[Chilli]

Wow.. that must have been surprising!
Your boy turned into a girl! Or rather finally decided to proove to you all that she was, infact, a girl all along. =D

[Logan]

I'm still sitting here, scratching my head. That little Bennie sure surprised us all!!!!!

[Pam]

Logan, surely you couldn't have been mistaken. She must have taken Bennie (I mean, ahem,....Bonnie.....) for a sex change operation!

[My Peanuts]

LOL, Bennie fooled everyone!

I have one like that. One of my new guys, Spanky, (rescuer named her and I kept it) I was petting Spanky and she put her butt up in the air and starting making female mating noises! I thought Spanky was a boy! lol!

[K9karen]

LOL! Who wudda thunk? Oops.. a name change is in order!
Ya know, theres a medical facility that determines the sex of a bird. I forgot the name..they advertise on the back of Dog Fancy (and I guess all those magazines) and say they can determine the sex and background etc.. So when I emailed them, they said they only can do it for birds. I thought they'd be able to determine what breed mix Logan is, but they can't yet (working on it)

[Argranade]

Lol yes it can be very hard to tell the sex of a bird...

[Logan]

What is so strange is that Bennie looks EXACTLY like his daddy, Roger. Remember, he was the first to hatch and ways bigger and much more animated that his so called sisters! LOL!!!!!

Poor Amber. At least you know that there will be no babies, right???? But to think that after all this time (2 years), we thought Bennie was a real man..................guess not, unless boys can lay eggs!!!!

[Zippy]

LOL that had to be a big surpise
If Sweet P.ever lays an egg
we think he is a boy

[CamCamPup33]

LOL! Goodness, you can only imagine my face! My moms expression was pretty priceless too..

Bennie does look like a male though, she has really bright features, (her cheeks) and isn't it said that females have sort of dull colored features? Also, Bennis neverrrr stays quiet! She's sooo vocal!

I was wondering why she was so quiet, because usually when she's in his cage, and im in the room, she'll let me know she wants out. But this time, she didn't make a sound, i was sort of concered, lol. Soo, i went over to her cage, and lifted up the sheet, and there she was on the bottom of the cage sitting all puffy looking, like she was preening herself. She was veryyy protective at first, but she eventually moved a bit and i saw it.

SHE* (i have to get used to that, LOL) hasn't been in contact with any males, so it's not fertile, but i was reading you're supposed to take it away after a week? In my cockatiels for dummies (I live by that thing!) book it says if i take it away now, she'll go into "egg laying mode" and lay a clutch of eggs. Is this true?

I'll have to take some pictures of her with it today, so i'll get those posted soon!

[I had to go through there and fix the "he's" to "she's"] LOL

[BitsyNaceyDog]

That's happened to me twice. It's quite a shock, isn't it.

One of the times was with my dove, Flutters. She was 4 years old before she laid an egg. That was last summer and she hasn't laid any since. It's hard to break a habbit so I usually still refer to her as a boy.

The other time was with my lovebird, Romi, who used to be Romeo. I had a pair of rescued lovebirds named Romeo and Juliet. Juliet had laid eggs several times, but Romeo never had. Juliet died leaving Romeo by himself. Not too long after Juliet died (a few weeks, if I remember correctly) I found Romeo sitting on an egg. It just happed to be April Fool's day and I was certain that my husband was playing a joke on me. It took him awhile to convince me that he wasn't. She's laid several eggs since then.

[Vermontcat]

Wow!
Bennie girl sure fooled us all didn't she?

Logan, didn't you adopt out Bennie's sisters together to the same home?
Maybe you should check up on them to see if they have any surprises of their own.

[My Peanuts]

Amber, I don't know how much you know about this, but make sure Bennie has plenty of calcium if she doesn't already. Also do not take the egg out for a while. Bennie will keep replacing the egg and too much egg production will be hard on her body.

BTW, I had a female friend in high school whose nickname was Bennie, so I say keep it the same