Parakeet gender

[my gang eats grass]

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any tips on telling the gender of young parakeets by their cere. Thanks in advance.

 

[HappyClucker7]

Males have blue or pink ceres. Females have white or very light blue ceres, and mature females can get brown ceres.

 

[my gang eats grass]

Males have blue or pink ceres. Females have white or very light blue ceres, and mature females can get brown ceres.

What about when they are young, because all the ceres look just kinda purple-ish pink to me before they are mature.

 

[HappyClucker7]

What about when they are young, because all the ceres look just kinda purple-ish pink to me before they are mature.

Generally it takes a couple weeks before the ceres start to change color.
Is there a specific bird you're trying to sex?

 

[my gang eats grass]

Just the "young" ones at Petco, lol. I'm going to wait till late summer before I get one because I'm busy right now, so it's no emergency. I just want to know because I'm wanting to get a male.

 

[my gang eats grass]

I had heard something about there being more white around the females nostrils, is this true?

 

[muddy75]

Just the "young" ones at Petco, lol. I'm going to wait till late summer before I get one because I'm busy right now, so it's no emergency. I just want to know because I'm wanting to get a male.

i have found that the pet stores tend to always have more males than females in stock. when i found my female at petsmart, she was actually banded.

 

[HappyClucker7]

I had heard something about there being more white around the females nostrils, is this true?

Yes, females have white around the nostrils.

 

[my gang eats grass]

i have found that the pet stores tend to always have more males than females in stock. when i found my female at petsmart, she was actually banded.

Yes, females have white around the nostrils.

Thank you!

 

[ShrekDawg]

The Petco ones are pretty easy because they’re usually old enough to sex I think or close. And sometimes they have older ones too. I purposely got the two older ones when I got mine. The boy had a deep blue cere and the girl was kinda crusty brownish, both mature or close to it, plus they were really pretty colors, different than the rest, and the boy was really friendly, so I picked them so yeah. You can usually tell pretty well with the pet store birds.