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my new budgies

Post by Tish » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:36 am

I went out yesterday to a local pet shop to look at budgies. They had baby and older one that are around a year old. Well I felt so bad for the older ones, even though I couldn't take them all, I did however take 2. I'am going to try my hand at taming them, but I also know that they may never be 100 percent trained. This will be my first time training a budgie or any bird to come to my hand. Wish me luck! Both are males as far as I can tell. The green and yellow one is Charlie and the blue and yellow one is Joey.
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Sheather » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:39 am

The blue budgie is female - cere is too light to be a male.
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Tish » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:44 am

Sheather wrote: The blue budgie is female - cere is too light to be a male.
Really? You can tell that from the picture? It looks cream colored with light blue tone to it.
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Sheather » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:51 am

Yes, that would be a hen. Male budgies have solid pink or purple ceres or a rich deep blue. Females vary from white to sky blue to tan to a deep brown.
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Tish » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:55 am

Okay, I've change there names around Charlie is the blue and yellow one, since that name works for a girl as well. Now the green and yellow one is Joey.
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Sheather » Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:07 pm

Good luck with them. Hand-training adult parakeets is difficult but their being wing clipped may help.
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Post by Flight Feathers » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:07 am

Lovely new budgies- do you have a close up of the blue?
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Re: my new budgies

Post by Sojourner » Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:28 pm

I have two parakeets the same color, LOL! The blue is actually more of a turquoise and the green one looks to be a hybrid with some English budgie in him. Both males. They are named Thing One and Thing Two. Thing One is green and Thing Two is blue.

Male parakeets are actually better talkers than larger parrots. There was a guy on youtube who made a living off his videos of his bird who had over 2000 words in his vocabulary. This was at least 10 years ago so the bird is probably dead by now, I couldn't find him on youtube just now. Allegedly its easier to teach them to talk as singletons though so it might be a lot harder to teach them to talk. However I think they are happier with other birds for friends - "talking" doesn't really mean anything to them, it just amuses us.
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