Are these all hens?

Also: what would be their description and approximate age?

 

Snowflake (Red eyes)

 

 

 

Fiona

 

 

 

Sky

Edited February 28, 200916 yr by Cory

Snowflake is a young albino. Looks about 2 months old. The cere looks pink in the photo which means that you have a male. A male albino's cere stays pink all his life

 

Fiona is a normal dark green hen about 4 or 5 months old she is still going through her first moult

 

Sky is a recessive pied female. It is difficult to tell the age of recessive pieds but as she has a ring on her leg you could check to see if it is dated

Edited February 28, 200916 yr by Neville

l agree with Neville on the genders and types.

 

l noticed this is your first post, Welcome to the forum

You have very nice budgies.

Snowflake is a young albino. Looks about 2 months old. The cere looks pink in the photo which means that you have a male. A male albino's cere stays pink all his life

 

Fiona is a normal dark green hen about 4 or 5 months old she is still going through her first moult

 

Sky is a recessive pied female. It is difficult to tell the age of recessive pieds but as she has a ring on her leg you could check to see if it is dated

 

sorry but the albino seems to have white rings around its nostril so it is a female

:budgiedance: and Welcome and I agree with Neville on this post

It depends how old the albino is...

At adult age the albino would be a cock because a hen albino would have a brown cere. If the albino is a young baby then it could be hen. I say its a cock.

the colouring of the cere seems evenly pink, that link of white just looks like reflection of light in the picture. I would also look for a change in colour to say hen. looks male to me.

 

the other two are hens

I think Snowflake is male as well

Snowflake is a young albino. Looks about 2 months old. The cere looks pink in the photo which means that you have a male. A male albino's cere stays pink all his life

 

Fiona is a normal dark green hen about 4 or 5 months old she is still going through her first moult

 

Sky is a recessive pied female. It is difficult to tell the age of recessive pieds but as she has a ring on her leg you could check to see if it is dated

 

Thank you

 

This really helped, Snowflake's cere is a blueish pink but I don't see any white in it or maybe I just don't want to see it, if there's any.. I really want him to be a boy. And about Sky's ring.. I did check it but it doesn't look like a date to me, I know she is a little older than Fiona so that helped too.

 

Thanks to everyone for all the opinions I've gotten so far.

Edited March 2, 200916 yr by Cory

And about Sky's ring.. I did check it but it doesn't look like a date to me, I know she is a little older than Fiona so that helped too.

 

Rings dont have dates on them but they do have codes which indicate the year it was put on and also the colour of the ring is a different colour for every year. Read it off to us and we may be able to help.

Rings dont have dates on them but they do have codes which indicate the year it was put on and also the colour of the ring is a different colour for every year. Read it off to us and we may be able to help.

 

 

Oh..I'm so clueless about the rings lol

 

Okay here are the ring colors and numbers for my birds:

 

Snowflake: Purple - 6146

Fiona: Purple - 6995

Sky: Silver - 9638

Edited March 3, 200916 yr by Cory

Rings dont have dates on them but they do have codes which indicate the year it was put on and also the colour of the ring is a different colour for every year. Read it off to us and we may be able to help.

 

 

Oh..I'm so clueless about the rings lol

 

Okay here are the ring colors and numbers for my birds:

 

Snowflake: Purple - 6146

Fiona: Purple - 6995

Sky: Silver - 9638

 

 

 

So the color for Snowflake and Fiona is actually Iris. I just didn't know what it was called and decided to put purple since its kinda close to it.

So what does the Iris color stand for and what about silver?