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How can you tell if a parakeet is a boy or a girl-the pet store people didnt know, but hey, theres g2007-11-24 17:20:02

a way of knowing. Also, if there are two parakeets in a cage together does it matter what sex they are?

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How do I tell a Male from a Female?

The easiest way on an adult is to look at the bump of flesh above its nose - the "cere". On a male this is blueish. On a female this is brownish. Males tend to be more likely to talk. Females love to gnaw, because one of their primary tasks in the Eucalyptus groves of their homeland was to gnaw out a nest for the baby keets. The cuttlebones you put into their cages serve not only as a good beak-trimming tool, but also a great gnawing spot.

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There are certain vets that have the right stuff. they take a sample of blood and then u wait and they tell u

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Probably have to take it to the vet. With snakes the only way to be sure is too "probe" them to check for the hemi-penis, or do a blood test. Somewhat similar with birds that don't have distinct sexual patterns.

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When my daughter had a parakeet I was told that the way to tell was to look at the nostrils on the beak. If there was a band of purple(maybe pink?) color around them that meant the bird was a female. Any other color such as black, indicated a male.

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The female's head is lighter than the male, and they have no red shoulder marking. Also, I don't think their sex matters if they're in a cage together.

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if they are about 5-6 months old you look right above the beak where the nostrils are if its blue you got a male if its brown you got a female and as long as you dont have 2 males you should be fine with no problems but while they are young you wont have a problem at all anyway and you may never but 2 males usually fight more than if you had 2 females or mixed sexes if you have only one and its a male you will have to make shure you get females for now on

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Male parakeets have a blue cere (waxy area above the beak). Female keets have a tan cere.

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Males, depending on their color, will usually have a blue area above their beak where their nostrils are. In some colors the blue will be a deep purple. That fleshy part is called the cere. Females' ceres will be brown and crusty when they hit breeding condition. Parakeets before the age of six months will be hard to sex as both males and females have a pink cere. Plus it changes colors a few times before it finally settles in to blue or brown. I had a few budgies I thought that were male and turned out to be female!