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2/26/12 at 7:01pm

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Can you tell the sex of these 2?

This is "Dexter" almost 1 year old (male?)

and "Rita" 3 months? (female - we hope?)

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2/26/12 at 7:07pm

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looks to me like both are males, judging by the blue above their beaks.

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2/26/12 at 7:19pm

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Raised so many of these guys over decades, You need to get those guys a couple of girls. Sorry

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2/27/12 at 12:54pm

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Both are males and the second bird is way older then 3 months

3 months they don't have a blue cere my guess is he's at least 8 months old.

If you plan on getting females look for white Ceres or tinted blue with white around the nose part or brown Ceres. :)

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3/1/12 at 10:07pm

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ok i would say both males

but if you look the second one has PURPLE not blue, i dunno if males can have purple but if they can i would say male, and i know females have pink above their beaks not blue. never seen purple tho

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3/2/12 at 7:05pm

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it's hard to tell from your pic of "Rita" but one thing to look for when determining age is the barring on the forehead. Babies stripes cover the entire head and start to fad around three months old until the forehead is clear like Dexter's. They both look male. Very pretty birds.

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3/6/12 at 10:51am

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ok i would say both males

but if you look the second one has PURPLE not blue, i dunno if males can have purple but if they can i would say male, and i know females have pink above their beaks not blue. never seen purple tho

Females don't have pink Ceres at all, albinos, lutinos and recessive pied male budgies do.
Purple Ceres is usually a younger male that has it they turn to blue as the male ages.

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3/6/12 at 4:43pm

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ok i would say both males

but if you look the second one has PURPLE not blue, i dunno if males can have purple but if they can i would say male, and i know females have pink above their beaks not blue. never seen purple tho

Females don't have pink Ceres at all, albinos, lutinos and recessive pied male budgies do.
Purple Ceres is usually a younger male that has it they turn to blue as the male ages.

Lol, they dont? i feel stupid, ours did, at least it looked like that

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3/7/12 at 2:22pm

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Lol, they dont? i feel stupid, ours did, at least it looked like that

Maybe I should make a thread on how to sex budgies.

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