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How do I tell if my parakeet is a boy or a girl2007-11-24 17:20:44

I have one parakeet and it is yellow all over with blue cheeks and black spots under the blue. Boy or Girl

Answers:

Male:

Young bar head males - (the black stripe touch the beak) will have a very bright smooth pink cere.

Older males- no bars and maybe an iris ring (white ring in eye) will have a strong blue cere which will be smooth.

Albino/lutino, other red eyed mutations and Recessive pied males- the males do not get the grown up blue colour but rather keep the baby pink.

Females:

Young bar heads - these can have a range of colours from a pinky tone with white rings around the nares to a blue white all over the cere.

Older females - The cere around the age of 6 months will start to change from the baby colour to a deeper brown and will start to appear crusty. This can change depending on the time of year, this dark borwn colour normally found when the female is in breeding condition. When she isn't the brown can peel off and be a light blue colour.

Alblino/lutino, other red eyed mutations and Recessive pied - unlike the males the females of these types get the same changes as any other female.

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See if it will ask for directions when it gets lost.

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You have to look at the beak. If it is darker(brownish) then it's a male. If it's lighter(tanish) it's a female.

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its easy with a parakeet..look at there face, right above the peek, if you see color, its a boy..the boys have more colors than the girls..

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It's easy if the color of the bird is not solid yellow or solid white. The sere (part above the beak) when the bird is 3 to 4 months of age it will turn either brownish red for females or blue if it is a male. when they are younger it is a little harder to tell the females will usually be pearly white and the males will usually be purpleish blue but that is not always the case.

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Look at it's cere (nose area), a male's will be blue, a female's more of a tan color.

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A couple of people gave you the right answer. A males beak, or the "nasal" area to be specific, will match its feathers and the females will be a neutral yellowish tan color.

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With parakeets or birds of any kind really, the only way to get a definite answer is to have the bird surgically sexed..because birds' reproductive organs are internal. With parakeets that's kind of an expesive route to go. Generally with a parakeet, on its beek right at the very top where it's nostrils are at it will either be blue or brown, the percentage of the time (thhough not ALWAYS accurate) a boys is blue and a girls is brown.

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I was told by a vet I had a boy.

Well, when my boy parakeet laid eggs, I question all the

ways of judging the gender.

good luck

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If they are mature and not babies look at the cere (the bump at the base of the beak with their nares or nostrils). In males it is blue and in girls it is brown. In baby keets it is brown in both sexes.