Hi there, my partner and I are disputing whether Motley is a M or F , I think its a girl mainly because of her behaviour, she is very nasty and a bully to our other birds , we found her approx 3 months ago being attacked by lorikeets and her prev owner hacked the feathers off her wing so she couldnt fly , so her wing has since started growing back .... we had her isolated as of a couple of weeks ago , but we trialed her in our bIgger cage with our other 2 budgies (M&F) a cockatiel and a Rosa Bourke and she has just taken over , the others dont even want to go back into their cage when she is in there , and when we do finally get them in , she chases them off their purches and bites their tails and wings , she is really agressive , but with my male Budgie she seems to get along with him fine , i have isolated her again into her own cage so they can at least get some sleep , when they are out of the cage they can at least fly away from the little terror ! her cere is also a laventder colour which is what is making my partner think its a boy EVEN though I have shown him pics of females with Lavender ceres , I would love to hear from the experts if possible !

 

Edited February 22, 201312 yr by Finnie
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Hi, you won.

Hen!

The picture isn't too good and I'm not an expert, but I'd say girl

I'm also going with a hen.

100% HEN

Agree with the rest. I can understand why he is saying its a M. There is a bluish tinge to the cere but it's definitely a female.

Yup, hen.

 

I will say, Bourke's parakeets are a gentle species, and shouldn't be housed with budgies, as budgies are aggressive, and can hurt the Bourke's. It's probably just as well to make the hen sleep in a separate cage. Maybe she and the male budgie would be happy to live with each other, away from the other birds. (?)

Thank you so much for your replies I wonder if he will believe it still with all the experts responses ! The Rosa is a lovely bird and very sweet, when we first got her we were told to put her in with our finches , so we did and she was MISERABLE !! they were all zooming around her and she hated it , I then did some research and saw that they like to fly around and be sociable to an extent , she is happy in the cage with the others and follows the budgies around , especially chickee my male budgie , my cockatiel who unfortunately flew away on monday loved her too ... so glad we took her out of the finch cage , all of my birds except the finches only sleep in their cages , for the most part they are flying about the place .