parakeet boy or girl?

wehereerrere84 · 11th October 2006, 12:03 AM

hello i used to have parakeets and i know the main question everyone was asking me was "which ones the girl and which ones the boy?" so i was wondering how do you tell? i heard you hav eto look at their noses and see which color it is like if its blue or not but i cant really tell >_<

MissyG · 12th October 2006, 01:05 AM

Here is information I found that explains easily how to sex parakeets:

Quote:

SEXING ADULT PARAKEETS

In adult MALES, the cere is BLUE all over.
In adult FEMALES, the cere VARIES. Females grow an ugly brown
crusty skin on the cere when they are ready to breed. Later this
falls or peels off, and the cere returns to its underlying color,
which can be white, beige, or bluish. If you look at the color of
the rest of the bird, it can help explain the color of the cere.
Look at the toes and beak. Some birds have pink toes and bright
yellow beaks. Others are much bluer, with greyish-blue toes and
dark greyish-green beaks. These birds may have a bluer cere, too.
Thus, a non-breeding female with a bluish cere is not necessarily
sick or undergoing a sex change.

The cere is the fleshy part above the beak that has the nostrils in it.

Indy40361 · 6th January 2007, 11:23 PM

I always thought the boy birds were the ones that were more flamboyant looking and the girls were the less colorful and dull looking ones. I know this is true for the most part in nature, but I don't know for sure in regards to the birds we generally keep as pets.

11th October 2006, 12:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
wehereerrere84 Ant Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 76	parakeet boy or girl? hello i used to have parakeets and i know the main question everyone was asking me was "which ones the girl and which ones the boy?" so i was wondering how do you tell? i heard you hav eto look at their noses and see which color it is like if its blue or not but i cant really tell >_<

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Indy40361 Ant Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 48	Re: parakeet boy or girl? I always thought the boy birds were the ones that were more flamboyant looking and the girls were the less colorful and dull looking ones. I know this is true for the most part in nature, but I don't know for sure in regards to the birds we generally keep as pets.

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