Ok so we thought our bird was a girl, Because our friend who we got her from said she was a she. But as i have been on yahoo answers it say that if a parakeet has a blue Line on the top it is a male and a brown is a female??? My parakeet has a Blue line and We have always thought she was a female. .We have had her for about 2 1/2 years.
2007-01-26 14:42:10 · 17 answers · asked by Kelsyyy(: 3 in Pets ➔ Birds
It's more than just saying it's either brown or blue.
Females who are in breeding condition have brown ceres. If they're not in breeding condition, it can range anywhere from a dull red-brown to a light blue or a purple. An adult female budgie out of breeding condition has a light blue cere.
A male, on the other hand, has a very bright, intense blue cere. It also depends partially on the mutation of budgie colouration you have. Pieds, lutinos, etc. are sexed differently.
(One thing you can do is look around the nostrils - not just on the cere, but the area right around the holes. If you see a literally white outline of the nostrils, that's a female trait.)
For more information, try http://www.budgietalk.com There's a "determining gender" page that's pretty helpful.
2007-01-26 17:47:57 · answer #1 · answered by PinkDagger 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your parakeet is a boy. A blue cere is a boy. A pink/ish and/or a brownish color is a girl parakeet. I have 4 parakeets at home. The cere is the flesh above the parakeets beak. Here's two sites. Good luck! :)
2007-01-26 22:58:59 · answer #2 · answered by xx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi there the cere is the area around the breathing holes. Blue is a boy and brown is a girl. Sometimes the bird has to be of full maturity to know for sure. Have a tweet year.
2007-01-27 03:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by firestarter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my male parakeet has a dark blue nose and my female has a very light 2 tone purple nose. If the nose is solid blue then she is a male.
2007-01-26 23:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by Danielle S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a mature parakeet with a blue cere (the skin around the nostrils above the beak) is male. Be thankful. If it were female you'd have to worry about all those egg binding problems they are so prone to.
2007-01-26 22:51:23 · answer #5 · answered by ALM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm unsure about parakeets, but we have a love bird and after about a year or so it started laying eggs like CRAZY....so that's how we know ours is a girl. Good Luck.
2007-01-26 22:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by 123..WAIT! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when parakeets are young the part above the beak (the cere) will be a little blue and a little pink but mostly white. as they mature it will go one way or the other . i'm afraid that your girl is a boy
2007-01-26 22:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by john e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most probably I think its a male cos most male birds are more colorful compared to their female counterparts. They're the ones doing all the seducing during mating season...
2007-01-26 22:48:16 · answer #8 · answered by noel4037 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue is the boy, brown is the girl.
2007-01-26 22:46:36 · answer #9 · answered by Orange Juice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is defiantly a boy.
Don't worry, my cockatiel has gender issues as well. When we got him we didn't know how to identify if it was a boy or a girl... so we give him a girls name and referred to him as a she - up until his first vet visit when the vet said congratulations, you have a healthy baby boy...
yup. He still has a girls name - but I don't think he cares much.
2007-01-26 23:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋