Starting to doubt the gender of my budgie.

[Reformed]

Okay so I have had my budgie for about 17 days and I thought that my bird was a 'he', and the lady at the store said that he was a male and she had several budgies, and 'his' cere is a light blue and there is white around the nostrils.


Please help!

 

[spikennipper]

We need to know the age of the bird please but if it is young and has a light blue cere with white nostril rings it is most definitely a she! post a pic too

 

[brahmabreeder]

http://www.ehow.com/how_4706325_determine-sex-parakeet.html This is saying if yours is over a year and LIGHT blue than it's a girl.

 

[Reformed]

Well this kind of stinks!
On the article that brahmabreeder posted ( thank you very much for that

)
They said female budgies make loud squawking noises (and my budgie does that) and they sing less,but my bird does twitter but not 24/7 but when the piano is being played by my sibling it will start to sing.
The clerk at the store said that they were all a few months old,
Sorry to spikennipper, I do not have a camera and I don't now how to post pics

 

[Red-tailed Hawk]

lol! Oh my gosh! I have SO been there before! Ok, so here's a kicker, parakeets/budgies colors change from baby to adult. Lol! Mine did. I think all of them did and I've had oh...10 or so. My current female Solstice had VERY blue cere. It was so prominantly blue that both me AND the vet (a bird specialist) guessed her to be male. (Her cere is brown at the moment) The male, Yoshi, which we got at around the same time was pinkish (it's blue now.) You should have seen everyone's surprise after the blood test! It was rather cheap actually. You should just call your vet and ask how much they charge. I think mine was 10 or 15 bucks a piece. I did three at once that time and was floored that they were so inexpensive. I held off naming them for the week it took to get the results. When they are older, the cere thing works. When they are younger...not as much unfortunately. lol

 

[Red-tailed Hawk]

by the way, my parakeets all sang or chewed me out all the time. Each had an individual personality. Gender really didn't play a real roll in noise type or level. Honestly the ONLY sure way to tell is if it either lays an egg or you have a blood test, and NONE of my parakeets ever laid eggs. One of the female cockatiels I had 11 years or so ago laid eggs as soon as she reached puberty, while the one I currently have only laid them once when she was about 5 years old and has never done it again since then. So, it's only reliable if it DOES happen. Then it's pretty obvious.

 

[Reformed]

lol! Oh my gosh! I have SO been there before! Ok, so here's a kicker, parakeets/budgies colors change from baby to adult. Lol! Mine did. I think all of them did and I've had oh...10 or so. My current female Solstice had VERY blue cere. It was so prominantly blue that both me AND the vet (a bird specialist) guessed her to be male. (Her cere is brown at the moment) The male, Yoshi, which we got at around the same time was pinkish (it's blue now.) You should have seen everyone's surprise after the blood test! It was rather cheap actually. You should just call your vet and ask how much they charge. I think mine was 10 or 15 bucks a piece. I did three at once that time and was floored that they were so inexpensive. I held off naming them for the week it took to get the results. When they are older, the cere thing works. When they are younger...not as much unfortunately. lol

So how many do you have now?
About the blood test, I am not sure if there are any Avian vets around were we live.
I am pretty sure that my bird is a girl though.

 

[Red-tailed Hawk]

currently I've only got four birds. I've just had several sets over the years. I was pretty surprised to find an avian vet near me, but I'm half an hour from a very big city so it's not too surprising I guess. Most vets can can do blood tests I think. Don't know for sure.

 

[Reformed]

currently I've only got four birds.

That's cool how you have the vet right by you.
We have a vet here in town, but I don't think that they do birds.
But I am sure that my bird is female.
So how old are your birds?

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I'm pretty sure you can have the gender tested via feathers through the mail. I think it costs about the same as a blood test and will be easier for you since you don't have an avian vet close by.