R.I.P little budgie :(

[birdlady]

I am so sorry for your loss:-(

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[Katy]

Thanks guys, i really appreciate it. They may be little but they still win ur heart.

Yes they do. So very very sorry.

 

[birdlvr466]

So sorry...

 

[kcbee]

I'm sorry for your loss

 

[Marlene]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Taz93]

Thanks so much guys for all your kind words.

Here a some photos (not the best), the female is the purple one.




these photos below were taken last night before he passed away. He didn't even have enough energy to bite.




Can someone please confirm that he was a male, when i first got him his cere was bright blue but it changed to more of a light pinkish brown with a bit of blue around the nostrils.

 

[moonchild]

RIP little one.

To me it looks like a female...was the cere DEEP blue, or whitish blue before the change? If it was whitish blue, then I'd say female. But if it was deep blue then it could very well be a male that died of testicular cancer. From what I've read it can cause the cere to turn brown.

 

[carkam]

So sorry!

 

[Feather Mom]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

 

[Dana Lee]

I'm sorry for your loss

 

[Taz93]

RIP little one.

To me it looks like a female...was the cere DEEP blue, or whitish blue before the change? If it was whitish blue, then I'd say female. But if it was deep blue then it could very well be a male that died of testicular cancer. From what I've read it can cause the cere to turn brown.

Honestly i cant really remember, the cere changed colour within the first few months of owning him and has been like that ever since. I did some research a while ago about sexing budgies and i remember reading somewhere that the ones that have alot of white pigment will be harder to sex because their ceres dont go blue like normal males, they go a light pinkish colour which led me to believe he was a male. Ive dug up an old photo that was taken around when i first got them, it shows the cere before it changed.



The females beak went crusty like i knew it would but the other ones beak never did that, plus she was very bossy towards him and he had more of a song like call wheras she just went crazy with her calls lol this also lead me to believe he was a boy. Idk. They did everything together tho, cuddled, ate, preened, drank.

Do their eye colour have anything to do with sexing? because her eyes have white around the black but his were just fully black? as u can see in the photo.

Also does anyone have an idea what mutation he may have been? i was thinking recessive pied?

 

[waterfaller1]

I am very sorry for your loss.

 

[HelenVanessaDavies]

fly high and free little budgie