scala 0 Posted June 15, 2014 Am I a girl, opinions about gender / mutation/ age ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUDGIE L0V3R 0 Posted June 15, 2014 I think it's a female Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scala 0 Posted June 15, 2014 Wow, Thanks BudgieLover - I want her to be a girl too, but some people say, its a boy (Dark green Recessive pied, pink cere !!). I would love some more opinions Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scala 0 Posted June 16, 2014 comeon experts, No one else has any opinions !! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BudgieOwner 0 Posted June 16, 2014 Well i am no expert but i say boy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
varified 0 Posted June 16, 2014 I'm also no expert but I feel that it's a cock as a hen would have more white around the nostril and really you're looking for a white/tan cere in a hen (even in a recessive pied which effects the colour of a cock's cere rather than the hen's). Can't really be sure of the age other than that it's over four months old having gone through its first moult and lost all its baby bars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
birdluv 0 Posted June 16, 2014 Looks like a pretty hen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUDGIE L0V3R 0 Posted June 17, 2014 Can you get a closer shot of the cere? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Budgie_Mad 0 Posted June 17, 2014 I would say a hen too. But who cares she is so darn vibrant and beautiful! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robyn 0 Posted June 18, 2014 Love the green n/gold pied's. I'd opt for hen also, great strength of colour. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flip 0 Posted June 28, 2014 I'm also going for a hen. Pretty yellow and green pied. I can't pinpoint her age from the photos, especially as pied chicks don't necessarily have bars on their foreheads. Her cere will become tan/brown as she matures. Does she have an iris ring? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Finnie 0 Posted June 28, 2014 I think it's a boy. It's definitely a recessive pied, and therefore won't get any iris rings. Recessive pieds don't necessarily have bars going to their ceres, as Flip pointed out. They also tend to retain those bars into adulthood, if they do have them. So you really can't tell age on a recessive pied, unless it's a hen with a brown cere, and then you only know that it has gone through at least one molt. If this one is still a baby, then there is the potential for the bit of white on it's cere to expand. But many males have some white anyway. So you will have to wait until time passes, and if it doesn't develop the brown cere of a female in condition, then you will know it's a male. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trefto 0 Posted June 29, 2014 (edited) Its a boy! Congratulations, Hand out the cigars. Edited June 29, 2014 by trefto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maz7 0 Posted July 24, 2014 Trefto you so funny! He he he.lovely picture for your profile. I have a yellow budgie with brown markings all over the wings and she has cat EYES! LIKE A definite yellow colour.her mom is an Albino and her Dad is a green/yellow normal English budgie (original budgie colour) BUT HE was a show budgie. The chicks all get Dad's cute little fluffy beard with spots on it.wonder what breed they are? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites