What is the color of the eyering on an immature J?
A – From Jean: When the J’s were being imported and surgically sexed at the import stations the immature birds sold cheaper than birds “ready to breed”. With surgical sexing they would visibly see the development of the birds internal organs, thus knowing if it was a mature or immature bird sexually. All the juveniles had the dark eye rings. As the J’s started having babies I noticed this wasn’t the case with the domestics (at first), all my juveniles had white eye rings. The last few years however a lot of my babies have had blackish eye rings, they do lighten up with age. A – From Rita: I have never seen a dark eye ring on any immature J’s – either my own, Pam’s, or those at bird fairs.
