How can I tell if an ino budgie is a baby? Is there any other way to tell, seeing as they don't have bars on their heads? I would love a creamino budgie at some point in the future, but when I go looking for one, I don't want to be duped into thinking I've got a baby when I haven't.

 

With my first budgie, I thought she was a baby, but it turned out she wasn't (it was purely my inexperience, i didn't realise about head bars then, etc.). As a result, it's taken me two years to get her a little bit finger tame. I do love her dearly, but I would have loved it if I could have bonded with her when she was still a bub.

 

Help me out, so I don't make the same mistake again!

 

Also, are the cere colour rules still the same for working out sex in a baby ino? I'd love a little boy.

WIth Ino the boys don't change from pink cere to blue cere in grown ups. So it's hard to tell the age of them. The best thing to look for iare the baby black eyes. If there is a hint of a white ring it means they are anywhere from 4 months and plus.

Females on the other hand change cere colours like normal so one with a light blue cere would be a young hen.

Thanks Nerwen. That's really helpful. Now... let the search commence.

good luck

I would also just browse around check out stores and talk to the management. Check out their budgies, are they trying to pass off the older ones for babies? Ask questions, etc...

your also free to ask how long they have had them and such. Can't say you will be given the correct answer or even any but it doesn't hurt to ask.

I certainly will be asking those questions. I'm not in a hurry though, I'm just going to take my time and look around to see what place is best to buy from. If I'm not satisfied with their answers, I won't buy. I've been impatient before and then wished later that I'd chosen a bird more carefully. If it takes me a year to find the right bird, that's okay. I'll just have to wait. I'd love to find a little creamino boy, and having not seen any around here for ages, I think I might have a long search ahead of me!

Edited April 7, 200619 yr by Janette

Just a quick thought.. many (probably most) of the inos you'd find are going to be females. That's not to say that you'd never get your little boy, but since ino is a sex-linked trait females are more common.

Edited April 7, 200619 yr by HurdyBirdy

Have to say about 2/3 of my Lutino's are boys.

With the Albino's I have trouble breeding boys.

Weird!

 

Oh and it is hard to determine age of Ino's exept via Iris Ring as Nerwen said.

Don't be fooled by the bite test either, my boys for the most part bite harder than the girls.

Edited April 8, 200619 yr by karen

Have to say about 2/3 of my Lutino's are boys.

With the Albino's I have trouble breeding boys.

Weird!

 

...and I have one of yours Karen.

Bob is doing well too.

Goodo! Is he mating yet?

WIth Ino the boys don't change from pink cere to blue cere in grown ups. So it's hard to tell the age of them. The best thing to look for iare the baby black eyes. If there is a hint of a white ring it means they are anywhere from 4 months and plus.

Females on the other hand change cere colours like normal so one with a light blue cere would be a young hen.

 

Aren't "ino" eyes red even as babies?

opps :bluebudgie: They are. Well what I was trying to say was look for ones with out the iris rings and they would be the young ones.