If its bright purple, its most likely a male. However if it is a light purple, it may be a female. Although keep in mind that if your keet is under a year old, then its hard to tell. It may very well be male or female... in which case only time will tell.
a cere
a cere
Parakeets have a beak and the thing above it which is called the cere.
a male parakeets cere is dark (dark purple blue ect.)
A budgie with a blue and purple cere is likely a female. In budgies, males typically have a blue cere while females have a purple or brown cere. The color of the cere can sometimes indicate the gender of the budgie.
it just means that she is ready to breed
no
sexing a budgie is relatively easy. if the bird has a blue cere its a male if it has a pink or brown cere its a female
well i have 2 keets myself and i myself isn't sure iwhich one it which. online it says that females have a tan or pink cere. and males have blue-purplish. but the owner i got them from says the pink is male and the blue is female i don't know which one is which yet. we will see if they mate That is incorrect males have blue and females have dark pink and a little brown in them. So your parakeet is a female.
Parakeets breath through their cere, The small but cute set of openings located above their beak.
yes
If you are referring to their feathers getting darker or lighter as they mature then no. But in normal types of parakeets, such as the normal greens and blues, they have bars on their faces going down to their beaks that will vanish as they mature. If you are asking about their Cere (the fleshy part on their beak) It can be quite complicated. In MALE babies the cere will be a TRANSLUCENT pink with maybe some OPAQUE white around the nostrils. For FEMALES the cere will be mostly an OPAQUE white and maybe little blue. This is not always set in stone however. When they mature, males will have BLUE ceres and when it is breeding season they will turn an even darker blue. Keep in mind that this is for NORMAL parakeets; not lutinos or albinos. In normal female parakeets, the cere can range in colors. The femal's cere may be brown, white, pink, and various shades inbetween. When a female enters breeding season their cere will get a crusty look and will be a dark brown. After breeding season has passed the cere crust will fall off.