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tinatahir

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Hello pet lovers. I have 2laughing doves and one pigeon all 3 are attached to me. But recently i bought a budgie i dunno if its a male or a female but i do hav a guess that its a male, i even dont know the age as the pet keeper didnt know it too. I heard dat budgies can talk ? It does stand on my finger but its nervous or scared most of the time. So can anyone tell me its age as well as the gender. Il post the pix.
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Judging from the head bars he is fairly young, most likely under one year. Good luck with him.
 
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tinatahir

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so you saying its a male ? And how about the talking skills ? As you said hes 1year old is it possible he can be trained to talk ?hes still not that attached to me yet hes still frightened i dont know how to tame i do offer him spray millets but no sign of any closeness. Morever i have observed when i give him a bigger cage he plays he flys and like to come out and this happens when i am at my other house as i have pets der so i guess he likes that sorroundings. But when hes in my husbands home he stays quiet all the time whereas in my home he chirps hes noisy. But not here so what shall i do ?

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With the talking male budgies I have had in my life I learned that mostly they pick up things you say often to say. I don't repeat words to them over and over. Just in your every day activities say a few things and repeat these words often as you interact with your bird. The first word of my budgies was always Hello. Not all male budgies will talk.
 

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Just go to YouTube and look for talking budgies...!!!
And you can search and learn about best diet and care right here!
 

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Here is a video of Chipper the best talker I ever had. He began saying words at 3 months of age and had a huge vocabulary. Sadly and I means sadly he passed on from a dreadful disease budgies can get.

[ame="https://youtu.be/ATyZ7giWL58"]Chipper Talking - YouTube[/ame]


I just talked normally to him. He chose the word cracker as his favorite word and often he would change the words he said around like in the end he says "cracker tickle" and "cracker chip" He loved to talk to the toy you see him in front of. Male budgies seem to like mirrors also so he had one but preferred to talk to his toys.
 
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Here is one more

[ame="https://youtu.be/LEtDgvFNbzU"]Budgie Talk - YouTube[/ame]
 
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tinatahir

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lacewing i had hand reared pigon babies and dove babies i have alot of patience. I even had several budgies when i was jst 4yrs old but i never knew that they could be such great pets if kept single. Thats how i took him. You said hes a male ?but i even heard that if its nose has a white ring its a female ? Hes very noisy when the tv/music is being played even when i take him to my other home there are my dove and pigeons so with them hes very playfull he chase after them or try to imitate what they do lol but at my hubbys home he stays calm/quiet so do u think he needs a friend ? The purpose i took him was to bond with me. But if hes nt happy with me i would give him a friend. And can i take the other budgie of very small age ?because if the other budgie will bond then i guess he can start trusting me :)


il post my dove and pigeons pix here :d plus il show what i feed my budgie
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one more pic of my budgie nd pigey
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You can tell the sex of a budgie by the color of their nose (cere).
Males are blue...young males are light blue. Females are tan or brown.

With the "bars" on Chippers head still...that indicates a youngster,probably less than a year old.

Go to youtube and check ok "Disco the talking budgie" or "Pedro".. You will be amazed at their talking ability!

Chipper is a very handsome young boy :D And very sorry to hear about your other friend passing :(

Welcome to the forum also..keep in touch,and don't forget...we LOVE pictures!

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Visually sexing a budgie depends on some factors like age, season of the year and temperament of the bird. Most accurate is a DNA test you can do at home if you want. Its done with a few feathers you pluck directly from the bird. I did it on a Lovebird.

This could help: Budgie Sexing

A budgie generally bonds to you the strongest if it is the lone bird in the home. My two are strongly bonded to each other from day 1 when they first got together.
 

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Looks like a young male to me, based on his pink cere. I don't believe in housing social species by themselves, so I'd personally get him a friend (from an animal shelter). Sure he might not want to spend as much time with you, but I think it's kind of selfish not to let him be with at least one other budgie. In the wild, they live in flocks of hundreds, if not thousands of budgies. I have seven budgies, a parrotlet, and two kākāriki, and they all eat from my hands and whatnot, despite living in the same aviary. Well, except the kākāriki, since I just got them from the shelter. Rumi, my special needs budgie, will even preen my hair, despite being adopted as part of a bonded trio (her, Lara, and Pollo).
 

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Your budgie is under a year old, I'd say around 9-10 months judging by how far back the baring on it's forehead is. As far as the sex it's most likely make, though when they are under a year sometimes it's hard to tell. General budgie sexing rules go like this:

Dark Blue or Dark Purple w/no white rings around each nostril= MALE

Light Tan, Light Brown, Dark Brown, or All White= FEMALE

Dark Blue or Purple WITH White Rings Around Each Nostril = FEMALE

Pink= Can go either way up until a year old; under a year it can be either sex, over a year it is male if it stays pink, if it turns white, tan, or brown it's female.

The photos look like your budgie had a pink cere that went to a solid blue cere, so that would be MALE, but in one photo it does look like it has white rings around each nostril. You'll have to wait another 2-3 months, until all the black barring is gone from the forehead to know for sure. At that point if the cere is solid blue it's a male, if the white rings are still there around each nostril at that point it's a female.

My guess is, since it looks like it started out with a pink cere when young and then it turned blue, that it's probably a male and that those white rings will disappear soon. If not you have a female. The blue/purple cere with white rings is the toughest to sex, most people don't know about the rings and automatically think male, but it all depends on the age.

If you got your budgie to bond with you then DO NOT get another budgie, as #1 there is no guarantee that they will like each other and if they hated each other you'll have two birds you have to keep separate, and #2 if they do bond closely they both will probably want nothing to do with you anymore, as they'd rather bond with their own kind. I bred both English and American budgies for 20+ years and I turned a couple of pet budgies into breeders because that happened. I currently have 7 English x American cross budgies that I bred and hand-raised myself from 2 weeks old; they are now about a year old and are all completely hand tamed, fully flighted, and loving, affectionate birds! They are every bit as loving and affectionate as my larger parrots, and I love them to bits! They make great pets and companions. They do talk well, the males tend to talk better than females though I've had a few females that picked up speech pretty well. In general though the males are the talkers. My first budgie was an English budgie named Keety, I got him when I was 6 years old, he was bred and hand-raised by my mom, and he lived to be 18 years old! He died when I was 24, and I was never closer to any other pet...

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