How old is my Budgie?
Look at hese three pictures. What can you compare about the budgie's eyes? Of course their different, their different because these budgies are different ages.
If your budgies eyes are all black then your budgies age is 0-4 months.
If these are your budgies eyes the age of your budgie is 4-6 months. This is the age of one of my budgies, piwi.
If these are your budgie's eyes then your budgie's age is 6-8 months. This is the age of one of my budgies.Tweety.
If these are the eyes of your budgie then your budgie is 8 months or older.
Here are more examples of finding out your budgie's age.
Sometimes when people buy their budgies in the petshop they come with a bracelet. Those bracelets represent the year when your budgie was born. There are different colors and each color represents the year your budgie was born. Here are all the colors and their year.
Gold-'96
Silver-'97
Green-'98
Orange-'99
Light Blue-2000
Black-2001
Gold-2002
Silver-2003
Dark Blue-2004
White-2005
Yellow-2006
Black -2007
Gold-'96
Silver-'97
Green-'98
Orange-'99
Light Blue-2000
Black-2001
Gold-2002
Silver-2003
Dark Blue-2004
White-2005
Yellow-2006
Black -2007
The band on the right is the ID band. The band on the left is a "Family Band", it doesn't have any markings.
Reading and ID band:
A=Issuing the budgie society
B= Breeder ID#
C= Year of budgie birth(year of the calf)
D= Bird ID#
A=Issuing the budgie society
B= Breeder ID#
C= Year of budgie birth(year of the calf)
D= Bird ID#
Here's the last way of figuiring out your budgie's age:
If your budgie's cap has stripes at the top it's under 4 months. If you don't know what a cap is it is the top of a budgie's head. Like in the bottom picture do you see how it has a clear part on the top of the head? That's the cap.
If your budgie's cap has stripes at the top it's under 4 months. If you don't know what a cap is it is the top of a budgie's head. Like in the bottom picture do you see how it has a clear part on the top of the head? That's the cap.
If your budgie's cap dosen't have any stripes and has a clear cap it is 4 months or older. If you don't know what a cap is a cap is the top of a budgie's head. Do you see how at the top of the budgie's head in this picture is clear that's the cap. Remember if you don't know what a cap is it's the top cl,ear part of the budgie's head.