Hi, 2 of my 3 budgies have had the feathers on thier wings turn brownish in colour. They were fine yesterday morning, but look really bad this morning. I didn't look at them last night to see how they were. They seem otherwise healthy, other than all 3 have recently developed brownish ceres. I have a boy, a girl, and an unknown, cause it's cere was damaged when I took it in 2 years ago, and has never looked anythinkg other than scabby brown. The boy and girls ceres turned brownish looking a week or so ago. There is no rust on the cage, and they havent been moved or exposed to anything new, the cage is under a semi enclosed verandah with a fly screen covering. The two birds are green and pale blue/white in colour. The one that is unaffected is the male which is a medium blue. Their regular diet is budgie mix from a pet shop, with occasional corn cobs or apple, though they havent had the fruit and veg for a coouple of weeks. There's been nothing new introduced to their diet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your boy budgie with the brown cere is a female. Time to post some pictures for us to be able to help you

The boy budgie has previously had a blue cere, and the girls was a whitish grey colour. Both of them have turned to a browny colour, but it doesnt appear to be scale face, I've had a budgie with that before. I'm away for the next couple of days and have someone else looking after them. I'll get some pictures on sunday and post them up.

Edited August 12, 201113 yr by jewelwillow

Females not in breeding condition can have a cere thats quite bluish and then it goes brown when in breeding condition.

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