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Hello and welcome to our budgie 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 i
f 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!
support@ukbudgies.co.uk
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