Is my parakeet a womanly?
Is my parakeet a female cause I want it to lay eggs
Answers: You need to look at your parakeet's "cere". The "cere" is the nouns above the beak and surrounding the nostrils. With adult parakeetss if the cere is bright blue the budgie is a male and whether the cere is brown the parakeet is a female. When a female is in breeding condition her cere will be bleak brown and may become rough and crusty. The above applies for most adult budgies except some color varieties such as albinos, fallows, lutinos and recessive pieds. With infantile budgies the ceres of both sexes are the same colour, a brown shade, so it is difficult to decipher their sex until they have be through their first molt at three to four months of age. Only then will the adult color show. the purple/blue should be male, and manila should be female.The only visual bearing to tell is by the color. (Male blue or deep purple, female pink or brown) Juvenile parakeets will generally have the same colration as a female.
