Today budgerigars are one of the most popular pets. The small sizes, bright coloring, inquisitive character and, of course, ability to repeat the human speech make these birdies ideal for contents even in the small apartment. Having decided on purchase of ""volnistik"" before future owner always rises to take a question of whom: male or samochka?
Instruction
1. If you plan to teach a parrot to talk, then it is better to buy a young male though experts speak, as among the self-check ""talkative"" talents meet. The most important is to take a very young birdie for training. Up to three months the parrots have more dim and ordinary-looking plumage, than adult birds. Also it is necessary to pay attention to a tail and claws - at young birdies they will be much shorter, than at adults. Up to 45 days on a klyuvika at young parrots it is possible to see black dab which disappears in process of growing of a bird. After you were defined with age, it is possible to start sex determination.
2. The sex of future pet is defined on color of a voskovitsa who settles down in the top part of a beak of a parrot. It is for this purpose important to know age of a bird as during the different periods of life color of a voskovitsa at birds changes.
3. It is the most difficult to define a sex at young individuals. Aged up to three months of a samochka have a pale blue voskovitsa, it is frequent with a white fringing around nostrils. Males at this age have a voskovitsa from pale violet to saturated-violet flowers.
4. After three-months age color of a voskovitsa changes. At a samochka she becomes serovato white or brown, and at a male of ""mink"" become bright blue. An exception are parrots of white color. They have a voskovitsa almost identical - grayish-white or brown. Precisely to define a sex of ""Snow White"" it is necessary to address the specialist in budgerigars or the veterinarian.
5. Not to be mistaken with gender and age, it is necessary to buy birds in specialized pet-shops where experienced sellers will help you to choose correctly future pet and also will make all necessary recommendations about contents and feeding of these wonderful ""chatterers"".