TS>While pondering the mail lament, Cindy Spangler said...
TS> TS> What could be causing that? What should I do? He shares a cage with
TS>another
TS> TS> Budgie, should I "isolate" the sick one?
TS> CS> He or should we say SHE is just doing the normal maturing a parakket
TS> CS> would  be. Females cere (the area around the nose) normally changes
TS> CS> from blue to  brown when the reach breeding age. The darker the 
olor,
TS> CS> the closer to  breeding time they are. If the others one cere is not
TS> CS> changing it is probably  a male......   Have fun.
TS>Don't I feel stupid now. ;-)  Thanks for the info.
TS>Now that brings up another problem... The other budgie is older, and the
TS>cere has not turned brown, so I can only assume that it is a male... So
TS>is there any special steps I should be taking now that they might be
TS>breeding?
Actually a female not in breeding condition will have a bluish white
cere but not nearly the dark vibrant blue that a male has.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Melopsittacus Rule! (At least as fae as they can tell!)
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