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it is very easy to tell because the male has a blue skin above his beak and the female has a brown or tan one . It is a waxy skin called a 'cere' . In young Parakeets the color is not developed and will be pinkish or a light er color . As the bird matures it deepens . The feather color of the bird makes no difference . I used to raise Parakeet's years ago and always loved them . Good luck with yours. If you let them out make sure your windows are closed . I lost one once and cried my eyes out.

2006-12-19 10:30:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Most parrots are monomorphic. This means that both sexes are identical.

To avoid wasting time, both yours and the birds, three main methods of determining gender are used.

Surgical sexing is the most widespread. In surgical sexing a veterinarian anesthetizes the birds and use an instrument called a laporascope to actually view the birds internal sex organs through a small incision. A trained avian veterinarian should have no trouble determining if the bird is a male or a female using this technique. Your vet will also be able to give you much valuable information concerning the bird's health, age, and reproductive potential.

Hormonal sexing and chromosome sexing are two other methods for determining the sex of a bird. One advantage that these procedures offer is that they are non-invasive. This means that the bird is never knocked out and cut open. The bird's life is never at risk. Another advantage is that the bird owner can send the specimen directly to the lab. If no avian vet is available, hormonal and chromosomal sexing will be the only choices.

As in any laboratory test, there exists the possibility of error. The samples must be properly prepared. Especially in the case of chromosomal sexing, collection of the specimen may be complicated. A competent, trained technician must do the actual lab work. The tests work better for some species of birds than for others. All three methods cost about the same.

2006-12-19 10:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by jd 4 · 0 0

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

2006-12-19 10:43:22 · answer #3 · answered by ~Ozy~ 2 · 0 0

many times speaking, boys have blue ceres (the section around the nostrils) and girls have whitish or beige brown ceres) project is, color does not totally improve till they mature slightly, so what regarded like a woman would improve a exceptionally blue cere in some months! Regardless, they'll improve a reliable bond to a minimum of one yet another and in time one will assume the function of the lacking gender; even regardless of the indisputable fact that, that's extra constructive to maintain 2 men particularly than 2 females. an entire grown person male generally has vivid blue ceres (till its an albino)on the same time as the female would have beige or brownish ceres. additionally the throat spots in youthful birds are smaller and extra rectangular than around as in adults. each so often you will see wonderful, infrequently important easy to whitish rings around their nostrils. The birds will teach affection through touching one yet another or rubbing beaks together. Get a poultry at approximately 5 or 6 months. youthful birds have enormous, black button eyes (the white iris continues to be invisible) and a wavy barriing over the entire head. seems such as you have a happy couple of two boys.

2016-12-15 04:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

In the place where the beak meets the face, where the little holes are, the male parakeet has a blue-ish tint, and the female has a pink-ish-tan tint. But when young, the color is all pink... Color of the feathers means nothing.

2006-12-19 10:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0 0

One way to sex a parakeet, or birds of the same family, is by the color of their nostrils/beak. Males more often than not are bluish in color, whereas females are white, reddish, light beige or brown.

Note that this isn't 100% accurate but it is a good indicator.

2006-12-19 10:27:13 · answer #6 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0 0

A good way to tell is by the color of their sear. It is where their nostrils are, right above their beak. Boys are generally blueish or purpleish, and girls' stay light in color, anywhere from whiteish to pinkish.

2006-12-19 10:32:13 · answer #7 · answered by Rachel R 2 · 0 0

well,usually if they are colorful they are boys,if they are s they are less colorful,like id say the white and blue is a ,cause its not that colorful,and the other one is a boy cause it is colorful.

2006-12-19 10:25:20 · answer #8 · answered by Jaden B 3 · 0 0

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