Beak colour

Tyeman · Post by **Tyeman** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:00 pm

Hi just wondering what colour and irn's beak is meant to be my little girl has like a dark almost black bottom beak and a red top beak im not sure wether i only just noticed the dark colour or not is this bad? and also is it bad to them frozen foods she loves to nibble on frozen fruits and peas is this bad for her beak?

pinkdevil · Post by **pinkdevil** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:24 pm

Hi,

My female Green IRN has a dark bottom beak and a red top.

I have not heard of anything bad feeding frozen fruit and veg to birds. I know of some people who give their birds ice on hot days.

Tyeman · Post by **Tyeman** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:04 am

Thanx pinkdevil puts my mind at ease

Fah · Post by **Fah** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:14 am

The beak colours are based on the mutation, and its certainly a normal characteristic among IRN's and they get this as they mature.

Regarding the frozen food, its no problem as far as I know at all. Frozen veg wont damage your birds beak, they crunch on harder stuff than that... and yeah I know a few birds that are partial to ice.

Tyeman · Post by **Tyeman** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:32 pm

cool thanx allot

Post by **kyria** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:04 am

Yep My Green and Blue both have almost all black on the lower mandible and my lutino's are all red. :wink:

Tyeman · Post by **Tyeman** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:57 pm

cool, im guessing mandible is a beak lol

Post by **kyria** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:44 am

use with birds yes .. in other uses it is the jaw sections, as in insects (ants, beetles etc.)

the mandible is either of a pair of mouthparts used for biting, cutting and holding food.

some very interesting study material
http://www.infovisual.info/02/053_en.html

That is the end of class, I will expect a 5000 word essay by next friday. Class dismissed .. hehehe

Fah · Post by **Fah** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:40 am

kyria wrote:That is the end of class, I will expect a 5000 word essay by next friday. Class dismissed .. hehehe

Darn, here I thought I was done with study!

Will have to remember my favourite uni courses where I learnt how to say the same thing, in many different ways, each and every form seeming a somewhat other and independant structure. God knows how anyone else actually passes uni making 'use' of the word quota...

Argh.. even the memories hurt!

Tyeman · Post by **Tyeman** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:55 pm

i dunno about a 5000 word essay but thanx for i havent learnt something new in ages lol!!!

Post by **kyria** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:53 am