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Hello and welcome to ukbudgies sexing page!
How can i tell the sex of my budgie?
Ok...budgie sexing. If by this statement I have managed to conjure up images of
sending flowers, romantic budgie meals and budgie cologne then you are very sorely mistaken!
Yes, you've cracked it; I'm talking about telling if you have a little he bird or a little she bird.
The answers are fairly different from telling the sex of cats, dogs and humans – no leg lifting
necessary! Just look at their feathered faces and all will be revealed!
To tell which sex your budgie is you have to check the budgies 'cere'. This area is situated above
the beak and surrounding the budgies nostrils. If you find that this area is more of a brown colour,
then the budgie is a female (I know, I was expecting pink too!) and at the other end of the spectrum,
if you find the cere is bright blue in colour, then your looking at a male. The cere's condition will
change on a female when they are in breeding - it tends to go a dark brown and could even become rather
rough and almost as if crusty (so don't panic! It doesn't mean that anything is wrong, but if you feel
otherwise then it won't harm to get it looked at by a vet, just to give you peace of mind).
The way to sex budgies is mostly the same except in the case of some colour varieties, for example;
lutinos, recessive pieds, albinos and fallows. The colouring of the cere can be difficult to determine
the sex in these breeds so it might be worth taking another look if you’re not too sure – you never know - Burt
could well be Beth. You can get a good indication however by placing a known sex budgie in the same area and
seeing how they behave together or, you could go for DNA tests to decipher the unknown!
With young budgies, it is best to wait until they have been through their first molt at around three or four
months of age as before this time the cere in both sexes are the same colour (a shade of purple) and therefore rather
difficult to tell which is which. After the first molt the adult colour will show. Yet to the very experienced eye the
sex of a younger bird can be told as on the male, the cere tends to be more noticeable than in the young female
(by this, I mean it is fuller and brighter and will take on a pinky shade instead of blue). Another tell tale sign
in a young budgie is the temperament. The females tend to be more aggressive and more likely to bite than a male.
So, there are the ways to tell the sex of your budgie. If you attempt the above and still have no luck, then that
can always be fixed by taking your budgie along to a vet or to a breeder and asking them!
For more information on sexing your budgie, please see our budgie forum.
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