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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.

The blue budgie is female - cere is too light to be a male.

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.

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.

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.

Good luck with them. Hand-training adult parakeets is difficult but their being wing clipped may help.

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

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.