how can you tell how old your budgie is? i would post pics but my camera is messed up right now so can someone tell me how and I'll do it myself.

Edited April 18, 200916 yr by KAZ
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The eyes is one way to tell the approximate age. Eyes with no ring around them is a bird 0 months to approx 4 months of age. Dark grey ring (iris around the birds eyes) is 4-6 months. Grey iris is 6 months to 8 months. Any later than 8 months is a white iris. some varieties dont get iris so their are other ways to tell.

 

Bars on the head/cap. Usually a budgie less than 4 months of age will have bars going all the way down to the cere, if it moults earlier, the bars will dissapear earlier. After 4 months of age it will have no baby bars.

 

Does your budgie have aleg ring?

 

Take a look at this site here, it has examples

http://www.budgieplace.com/age.html

The eyes is one way to tell the approximate age. Eyes with no ring around them is a bird 0 months to approx 4 months of age. Dark grey ring (iris around the birds eyes) is 4-6 months. Grey iris is 6 months to 8 months. Any later than 8 months is a white iris. some varieties dont get iris so their are other ways to tell.

 

Bars on the head/cap. Usually a budgie less than 4 months of age will have bars going all the way down to the cere, if it moults earlier, the bars will dissapear earlier. After 4 months of age it will have no baby bars.

 

Does your budgie have aleg ring?

 

Take a look at this site here, it has examples

http://www.budgieplace.com/age.html

 

thanks i found out my parakeet Ember is 4-6 months and my other parakeet Aqua is 8 months+