Boys or girls please

[Pippop]

If I can put up photo's will you tell me boy
Or girl please.

 

[Pippop]

i have more just give me a minute..that one is meadow.

 

[Pippop]

Hope you can see. I can only do one photo at a time.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

I think your budgie is a male, but I'm not a budgie expert

 

[Pippop]

Thank you. I have six budgies but I'm trying to put up all photos. Hard to get hang of it. This one is forget me not blue... And shadow with black.

 

[Colorguarder08]

So far it looks as though you've got 3 males

 

[SilverSage]

These are juvenile birds and are too young to tell. When they have their first molt around 4 months of age they will change to either browns or blue, and the blue will be truly, truly blue, not pink to purple at all. I am a budgie breeder, in case you wonder if I am a credible source.

 

[DallyTsuka]

you can sex young budgies. its just harder.


shadow looks like a young female. purple or pink ceres as babies are usually males, any with white rings around the nostrils are female. but certain mutations can make this harder.

this site has an excellent photo guide for sexing young budgies

Budgie Genders- 3 Weeks to Adult -               Cute Little Birdies Aviary

 

[SilverSage]

It is true that they can be sexed younger, but due to the color changes in photos I would not be confident doing so by picture. Sex related fights should not start before they we four months old, however.

 

[RavensGryf]

Also bear in mind that with some color mutations, the cere is not the typical blue or brown. Twigs for example is a recessive pied, and he is at least 2 yrs. old (?), DNA'd male, and kept the same pink/purple cere and dark eyes of the juvenile.

I've never had a female Budgie, but I've heard that they don't sing (go on and on twittering) as much as the males do. Males are typically very noisy.

 

[SilverSage]

As a rule that is true about the females, though my first bird, a female budgie, put every male I have ever encountered to shame!