Budgerigars delight the eye and cheer up - their beneficial effect on humans is noted by all the owners of these bright and beautiful birds, so more and more people decide to have two or three budgerigars at home. When purchasing pets, many are faced with the problem of determining gender - at first glance, it is not easy to determine it. In this article, you will learn how to correctly determine the sex of a budgie, and what it depends on.
Instructions
Step 1
Determining the sex of a parrot is very simple. To do this, you need to pay attention to the wax - the area above the base of the beak, which is not covered with feathers in the parrot. It is the appearance of the wax that determines whether your parrot is a male or a female.
Step 2
In addition, this area of skin above the beak is not only a gender indicator, but also an indicator of the health of the parrot. In a healthy bird, the wax is shiny and uniform, while in a sick parrot it can flake off and fade.
Step 3
In male parrots, the wax is usually painted in a bright blue color. In females, on the other hand, this area is paler - its shade varies from gray-blue to brownish. In adult parrots, sex determination according to this rule is easy - but you can get confused when determining the sex of chicks.
Step 4
In budgerigar chicks, females have bluish waxes, and males pinkish or lilac. Therefore, when determining the sex of a parrot, first of all, determine what age it is, since sex is determined differently for chicks and for adult birds.
Step 5
It is easy to distinguish a parrot chick among adult parrots - it has wavy stripes right under its beak, and large eyes stand out on its small head.
Step 6
If you determined the sex of a parrot in childhood, pay attention to how the color of its wax will change after maturation, when the parrot molts and receives adult plumage. It often happens that in childhood the sex of the chick was incorrectly determined, and in the adult state, females and males have to be identified again.
