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hello im a little confused i have a pair of cockatiels and they have been together for about 2 months now and are very close so i set them up wiht a nest box but today i walked past and i saw them mating (well i dunno if they were mating but 1 was ontop of the other 1) when i walked past i scared them but i noticed that so called female was on the top and the male at the bottom!
could this be that i have gone them mixed up that the male is a female and the female a male? also could it be possible that i have 2 females or 2 males? do they usually go on top of eachother and show mating sighn( flating wings out tail in air crouching down) would 2 birds of the same sex do this as a sighn of dominence?

Hi
Are you 100% possitive which is male & female & are you 100% possitive they are male & female?

If a pair of same sex bond together they can take the rolls of one female & one male. It has nothing to do with dominance though. perhaps you need to take them to the vet to sex them.

hi,
well the breeder said that they were male and female but the so called female was on top and the male on the bottom it has just clikced to me that the female(now male)is the one singing,i think he go them mixed up, they have a nest box but the male dosnt go next to it but i have seen the female get so close to go in but gets half way then out she goes! i have never seen her go all the way in.

well if you've got an egg then you have atleast one hen.. is the egg fertile?, if it is then you have a pair, if it's not that may mean you ahve two hens or that mating wasn't successful, or that the male is infertile, you can send a DnA sample to avian biotech to get them sexed.
http://avianbiotech.com/