Rainbow 0 Posted March 6, 2005 Member ID: 198 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,028 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 15,290 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/03/04 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2009 Birthday: 24/04/1965 Share Posted March 6, 2005 By request, I went through the archives and found some fairly good pictures that show the cere color in very young birds. This is only to illustrate one way I could tell the different sexes in my birds, but it should give you a fair idea of possible cere colors when trying to sex a young bird. All these were taken between 4 and 8 weeks. I won't even make you guess.... Female Female left to right - Female, Female, Male Male Male back to front - Female, Female, Male, Female Female left to right - Female, Male Link to comment
*Nerwen* 0 Posted March 6, 2005 Member ID: 5,064 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 121 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,817 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,375 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 14/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 18, 2014 Birthday: 20/02/1982 Share Posted March 6, 2005 very nice Rainbow I hope this help folks around here a lot Link to comment
Guest Imotive Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Wow this is an amzing post thatk you sooo much now I knkow that my new bird is....A MALE!!!! Link to comment
Guest Andy Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 thanks for that i think i am pretty confident about sexing them now which is good bacause i'll be picking out my new budgie(s) soon, i guessed them all right except this one I thought it was female, because of the white round the nostrils.. or was that just relection? Link to comment
Guest Jess* Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Thanks Rainbow, those pictures were very helpful. I'm like really hoping that I'll be able to pick out a male. Keep your fingers crossed! Link to comment
Bea 0 Posted March 23, 2005 Member ID: 860 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 400 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,240 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,695 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/03/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 22, 2009 Birthday: 12/09/1989 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Those pictures were really helpful Rainbow. Jess, are you getting your bird from a pet shop or a breeder. If you can get one from a breeder they should be able to pick a male for you. Link to comment
Guest BUUZBEE Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Thanks rainbow, i think i have a ton of males??? Link to comment
Sailorwolf 0 Posted September 5, 2005 Member ID: 1,536 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,753 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 16,870 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/09/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 21, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Basically the girls have a purple cere and the boys have a pink cere Link to comment
~The Netsta!~ 0 Posted September 5, 2005 Member ID: 1 Group: Root Administrators Followers: 1 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 602 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 5,352 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 20/12/02 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10, 2021 Birthday: 28/01/1990 Share Posted September 5, 2005 no, not really. The male usualy has a white ring in the nostrils. Link to comment
Bea 0 Posted September 5, 2005 Member ID: 860 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 400 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,240 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,695 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/03/05 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 22, 2009 Birthday: 12/09/1989 Share Posted September 5, 2005 What? :mellow: I thought that males had translucent pinky purple ceres as babies and girls had pinky blue with white rings around nostrils? Link to comment
Rainbow 0 Posted September 20, 2005 Member ID: 198 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,028 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 15,290 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 25/03/04 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2009 Birthday: 24/04/1965 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 I think adam meant it the other way. Females will have the white ring. Most all babies will have a purplish cere at hatch, which gradually changes shade as they age, males to blue (or pink with recessive or double factor dominant pieds and albino/lutinos) females to light blue, to white, to tan, finally to brown. Link to comment
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