Sexing my budgies

**BlueGin** · 03-10-2005, 05:20 PM

Hi all! New member here with a couple of questions about my budgies:
Firstly I would like some help on sexing them if poss. Bob I always assumed was male because he is relatively tame and doesn't bite hard. But at 3 years old his cere hasn't changed colour fromthe pinkish colour all my past baby budgies have had. Radish is an albino (with a strange irridescent green look to her front in some lights) and also has that baby cere at around 1 year old...
any ideas people?
Thanks for your time,

BlueGin

**scootergirl** · 03-10-2005, 05:55 PM

Male budgies will have a blueish cere...females will be brown or tan and can turn "nutty" looking (brownish) when hormonal.

If you have a white, yellow or recessive pied male budgie, the cere of a will be pink.

**BlueGin** · 03-10-2005, 06:52 PM

Thanks for the response Scooter, now I finally know what Bob is! He is a recessive pied. Radish is an albino... how the heck will I tell what sex they are? In general Bob acts like a male, quite friendly, gets bossed around. Radish pecks till you bleed and wont let Bob eat till she's full...
are these signs enough to sex them do you think? I wish I had known that the ceres didn't change on these colourings though, then it would have been easier to tell if I had a pair or not! lol

**scootergirl** · 03-10-2005, 07:11 PM

But if the cock is an albino, lutino, recessive pied or a fallow then the cock will never get a blue cere, the cere is then fleshy pinkish in colour.

**kathy5** · 07-08-2005, 11:07 AM

hi
I have found that with albino's & lutions that therer cere tends to go the same as with pied budgies

a tan cere for a female & a pinkish/purpleish cere for a male

both these birds are male the albino is on the right

this is a bit blury but it is also a male

this is my buttercup

hope this has helped you

**LadyAshley** · 09-22-2008, 12:53 PM

I have a male budgie that has a partially brown cere at times.
Does anyone else have male budgies that go through this?
He is breeding with his girlfriend Vox so i know he's a boy.
Pics:
(sorry if they are a little big)

**leebee** · 09-23-2008, 03:50 PM

Male Budgies sometimes display brown cere's as a submissive action, to show they aren't a danger to the other male's, and at times, the females. He looks very much like a boy to me