How can I tell if my parakeets are male or females?

one is yellow with a funny beek the other is blue black and white with a longer funny beek|||I highly recommend www.budgietalk.com


There is a lot of good information, with pictures!





Also, your vet can tell you. If you don't have one, try http://aav.org/vet-lookup/|||when they are young, it is hard to tell. when they are older, the male has by the nose it is blue and the female is lighter

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|||One way to tell if your parakeets are male or female is the coloring of their cere (the part right above the beak). If the bird is male the cere is bright blue, if female the cere is brownish, beige. This way of telling the gender only works on older and healthy parakeets. You can also pay people to tell the gender of your bird with DNA testing.|||Look at the strip of skin over the beak with the holes in it. The color should tell the gender of the bird|||when mature (about 4 months) the male will have a blue cere (the bit around the nostrils) and the females will go brown. ( you will no if you have a mature bird if it has white irises) I'm assuming they are budgies otherwise they can be dna sexed by the dna in a feather|||Look at the color on the beek. If it is colorful (like pink, blue, etc.) it is probably a male. If it is brown or dark, it is probably a female. Or your vet can always tell you.|||http://www.budgies.org/info/faq.html#sex鈥?/a>


"In general, the color of a budgie's cere is the simplest indicator of sex in adult budgies: males are blue, and females are white, light beige, reddish, or brown. While it is fairly accurate, the color of the cere cannot always be used to sex a budgie. With some color varieties, like albinos, lutinos, fallows, and some recessive pieds like harlequins, both males and females have beige or pink colored ceres. Other visual sexing methods include females having an almost invisible, whitish rings around their nostrils, and males having more rounded, bulbous ceres, both of which are often hard to recognize to the untrained eye. And many people also say that females bite harder than males and that males have rounder heads while females heads are more flat on the top. "|||I worked at the pet shop before.They told me to look at the tip of the noise.If it is pink it's a girl.If it's and blue or a Drake purple it's a boy.I didn't believe them so I went to the library and read an book about them.It was the truth.|||Your funny and the answers are just as funny the best to tell if one of your parakeets are male or female is to take them to the vet. Then the vet will take a small blood from their wings is the best possible way and it is actual proof.Just to let you know the situation about their beaks and all of this stuff well does not really prove a thing. The reason why I know cause my uncle is a bird breeder.