How can you tell the gender of a parakeet?

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How can you tell the gender of a parakeet?

2007-03-15 07:16:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds

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How do I know whether it's a male or female? Can I tell by its personality?

parakeet cermales have blue ceres. (For MOST parakeets that are green or blue. It can be difficult to tell what sex they are before 6-8 months of age.)

# Male: blue cere
# Female: brownish cere

Exceptions: Some male parakeets, like yellow ones (shown here) and pied (keets with mixed colors) will have purplish ceres that can be misleading. If it's leaning toward purple it's a male. If it's pink and leaning toward maroon or brown, it's a female.

The female's cere color has to do with estrogen, a female hormone. If the cere is very brown, you can tell the female's estrogen levels are high. This tends to be accentuated when they are nesting or preparing to start a family. If the cere isn't very brown, it could be due to low estrogen levels, or it could be a young bird, or it could be a yellow or pied male! (I thought this yellow fellow was a female for a few years until the surprise hatching of an egg! See my parakeet chick pictures for more on that story [links are at the top].)

How can you tell the sex/gender of a parakeet?

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When the parakeets are babies, it's hard to tell right away.
They'll have the lines going across their faces from right above the tip of their beek/nose area to above the top part of their heads. the color of their beek/nose area when they're small is a light tan color. As they grow a lil older, the lines start to fade away starting from the tip of the nose area moving back . that's how you tell they're a little older then the color of the beek/nose area changes.This is how you can tell female from male. The female's color stay's like a tan color, light brown. The males color changes from a tan, light brown to a blue, dark blue or bluish/purple color. That's a male parakeet.
I learned this when I had gotten 2 parakeets. Read up on the internet & bought books re: parakeets.

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Females - White/light-blue, tan, or brown cere. This is true for all varieties. With the development of brown color is a flaky texture. This can build up to be about a centimeter thick.
Males -
Blue or purplish-blue cere in normal varieties only.
Bright violet or pink (does not change after youth) occurs in the following varieties: recessive pied, lutino/albino, dark-eyed clear, lacewing, and fallow
If your budgie is less than one year old, the above rules are not applicable. The cere usually begins to change before one year of age but appears relatively ambiguous. A younger budgie's cere can appear to be changing towards one sex and then change the other way upon full sexual maturity at one year of age. However if your young budgie's cere develops the brown flaky appearance characteristic of female budgies you can be sure it is a female. You can also look at behavior to determine gender. Males often bob their heads, sing, and are usually more active and outgoing. Females are usually snitty and bossy over other budgies in the cage, and rarely sing. Females also usually make loud mad budgie sounds. Males sometimes make this sound too, but usually only when singing. If your budgie makes mad budgie sounds often it is most likely a female. See Budgie Sounds to hear a "mad budgie" recording.
how can u find the gender of a human?lol GENERALLY,THE AREA ON TOP OF A BIRDS BEAK (THE CERE) IS PINK FOR FEMALES AND (YOU GUESSED IT) BLUE FOR MALES.ONE LAST THING.IF THE BIRDS ARE VERY YOUNG THEY ALL ARE PINK,SO I GO BY TEMPERMENT.THAT IS IF THE BIRD LIKES TO BITE YOU HARD WHEN YOU HOLD IT.NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN,THAT'S A FEMALE. some do say colour but that is not exact the best way is by d.n.a the vet takes a feather and sends it off for the results. the is no harm done to the bird. we had it done 4 years ago it cost £30

2007-03-15 07:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

There's a lot of rumors going around about parakeets sexing. It is true that most birds can't be sexed just by appearance. Only a few birds, like chickens, have external genetalia, so I'm afraid looking underneath does no good. You can't be sure of the bird's sex until it is mature. Depending on how old it was when you got it, that should be within the first year you have it. Mostly the males have a blue cere (the bit with the nostrils), and mostly females have a sort of whitish brownish thing. Sexually mature females will have their cere turn an intense brown color several times a year to indicate they are ready to mate. This does not happen to males and is a pretty sure sign. Sometimes if a bird is pied (that is, a blend of colors), a male bird could have a cere that looks whitish brown like a female. The difference is that it won't change color to indicate mating status. You can get kits to have your bird sexed. Basically you take a very tiny blood sample and send it off. I advise you to get several kits, and send them all off. Some of these labs basically make up their results, so pretend you are sending the blood from 3 different birds and see if the results are the same. Good luck! If you need this info for breeding, just consider this before you do: THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF PARAKEETS. There is a shortage of good homes for them. I don't wanna discourage you, but I'm all for thinking things through first.

2016-03-18 04:55:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Parakeet Gender

2016-10-06 10:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

"aaa" gives a very thorough and correct answer. I just explained a similar situation on the ParrotStrut Forums.

A normal male budgie's cere is all blue and a female's is any other color (generally brown/tan/beige or pinkish). The female's cere will be browner when she is in breeding condition. However, a lutino or albino male's cere can vary in color, and can be pinkish or violet.

Note that the questioner is most likely asking about BUDGIES, not Ringnecked Parakeets, so the neckring answer does not apply. Furthermore, both male and female budgies explore the nestbox, and neither generally carries nesting material.

Pelvic sexing is only accurate in breeding-condition birds. If a hen is not in an egg-laying cycle, her pelvic bones may be as close, or closer together, than a male's pelvic bones.

2007-03-18 16:46:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Check in between its legs, gently of course, and careful it may bite you hard if you don't hold its head the right way, you will feel its pelvic bone, if its wide its a female, if its closed together its a male. Another way to find out, but its not so accurate is to listen to your parakeet, if it sings more than making noises, its probably a male. The most accurate and safer way to find out is to take your parakeet to your bird vet. and make a blood test. Hope it helps.

2007-03-15 07:32:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

In parakeets, a male has a blue ceres(the bump with the two holes above their beak) whereas the female has a reddish-brown one.
But it's always better to confirm with a vet, just to be sure.

2007-03-16 04:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

By means of ring in the neck (rose-ringed and Alexandrian parakeet) you can confirm whether it is male or female. Usually males are more beautiful than females by having excess plumage in the back.

Other important points are-

1. Pelvic area is wider in breeding hens than in cocks
2. Spread between feet of hen when perching is up to 1 cm greater than that of ****.
3. Hen only carries nesting materials.

2007-03-17 10:53:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Usually the male parakeet has a blue or greenish colored beak. And the males are the only one you can teach to talk.

2007-03-15 07:21:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

by the length of the beak...the males beak comes down a little further..and the females beak is rather short in comparison

2007-03-15 07:19:17 · answer #9 · answered by italianone70 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋

Put it in a cage with other birds of known sex and monitor their behaviour.

2007-03-15 07:44:23 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋