One of my parakeets is changing color after 2 years...Is it normal for them to chnge that late in ier life?

Question

I've had my parakeets now for almost 2 1/2 yrs. They are both a healthy blue and white with one of them having a yellow head. The ceres were both a greyish blue hue. Now the one that is completely blue and white is changing. The face is turning a pinkish color and the cere is turning a pretty shade of blue. When we got them we named them Eowyn and Strider thinking the one with the yellow head was male. I think we got them backwards. I was told that the males had a blue cere but I didn't realize it took so long for the cere to change. Is it normal for the coloring to change at that age? Or is something else going on I'm not aware of?

Answer 1

I think ceres can sex a budgie around 6 to 8 months. If it's changing now, it must be an environmental thing. Babies generally range within purpley-blue ceres, but as they get older, the female's will fade to a more purple-to-red-to-brown colour and the males will get more and more intense of a blue.

If it's a purple-blue, you've got a female. If you've got a bright, intense blue, you've got a male. Another way to sex some budgies is if you look directly around the nostrils - females will have a white outline literally outlining the holes. Females are most notorious for having changing ceres. Mating conditions will cause them to turn red-brown and crusty, but otherwise they would be a light, faded purpley red.

http://www.budgietalk.com has some pictures and descriptions that may help more than this.

Answer 2

my hair became a mousy blonde while i became approximately 5 yet now its chocolatey brown. My sisters hair was chocolate brown then it went truly dark brown until she died it blonde. Its completely widespread , I advise almost all people gets gray hair while they are previous do no longer they! Maxime x x x

Answer 3

Mine is doing the same thing. I have a green parakeet and she's starting to turn blue on her back. It is normal. So don't worrie.