i was wondering if anyone can tell the difference between parakeets?

Question

my friend got two parakeets and cant tell which one is the male or female...can anyone help?

Answer 1

Ok sexing parakeets is easy

The male parakeet has a blue cere (skin around nose)

The female has a brown or pink cere.

Answer 2

Sure you can tell the difference...it's the beak you look at...
You need to look at your budgie's "cere". The "cere" is the area above the beak and surrounding the nostrils.

With adult budgies if the cere is bright blue the budgie is a male and if the cere is brown the budgie is a female. When a female is in breeding condition her cere will be dark brown and may become rough and crusty.

The above applies for most adult budgies except some color varieties such as albinos, fallows, lutinos and recessive pieds.

With young budgies the ceres of both sexes are the same colour, a purplish shade, so it is difficult to decipher their sex until they have been through their first molt at three to four months of age. Only then will the adult color show.

To the experienced eye the sex of a young budgie may be differentiated. The cere on a young male budgie tends to be more notable than a young female's in that it is fuller and brighter. It takes on a pinkish shade whereas a female's will have a bluish shade.

Another tip is that a young female tends to be more aggressive and bites harder than a young male.

Answer 3

I think it's important to realize that you can NEVER really know the sex of your keet without a test. Any thing you do based on cere is a guess - and I can give many examples of people who guessed wrong.

Really it doesn't matter. Both males and females can talk. Both males and females can be cuddly. If your aim is to raise babies, you really need them examined by a vet anyway, to make sure they're healthy enough to go through that, and your vet can do a test to determine their sex.

I have photos of ceres here -

http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/

but again in the end it doesn't matter and a cere is only a guess. Unless you are breeding the keets, it should only matter that you love your keet and treat him (or her) with love and compassion. Your keet doesn't care what you call it as far as "him" or "her"!

Heck, one of my keets, Ivory, was thought by its previous owner to be a him for many years - but I'm rather sure it's a her! In any case I've had Ivory with my 3 female keets for many years now and there's never been an egg :)

Lisa Shea
http://www.lisashea.com

Answer 4

It depends on how old they are. If they are over 1 year old, you can. The males will have a blue or purple over their beaks where the females will have the same color or pink over their beaks.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

You tell by the cere Male mostly blue and female white or pink
http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/wingclaw/cere.html

Answer 6

check the beak. Blue, it's a boy, Pink it's a girl.

Answer 7

yes