New Budgie!

[birdgirl1216]

Ok before I tell the whole story, some of you might be a little mad lol or jealous.

Ok so I went to this really nice pet store called Clark's Pet Emporium, here in Albuquerque, and I got a bigger flight cage for Sapphire so she could fly around a bit. Well then I heard the chirps and kept telling myself no..no..no, but I walked over there anyway to check out their birds. Their parakeets were amazing, lots of differet colors and all guarentied under 5 months. The first on that caught my eye was a BEAUTIFUL violet one. But it was a female, but i was still in love with its beautiful violet color. Then when I was fixing to leave i saw a small yellowish blueish parakeet and it was a male. I asked the lady about him and she said they had just gotten a few new baby budgies in and he was one of them. He still has a bit of black on his beak(telling me that was from being a baby, the lady said). The other birds werent hanging around him and he seemed scared out of his mind. Sooo I bought him. I took him home and now Sapphire and him are inseperable. I cant even take Sapphire out of the cage without them calling to each other its so cute. I named him Sunny D because of his yellow(I was going to name him Eggie because he reminded me of an easter egg but i changed my mind.) What I want to know now is what mutation he is and if he truely is a male. Heres 4 pics of him in natural light outside except the last one where hes beside Sapphire. He was being a good boy and didnt have a heart attack like Sapphire did.

[Budgiebonkers]

A yellow face greywing sky blue or some sort of blue.

[Mindy]

Beautiful baby! Looks like a sky blue yellowface type II greywing.

Looks like he may be a male, but we can't be 100% positive until the cere starts changing in a few months. Maybe his behavior will provide us some clues as he settles in.

[birdgirl1216]

Yea him and Sapphire are like so cute together. When he goes down to the food cup and eats a bit Sapphire's like screaming at him the whole time and when he get back up to her perch they start touching beaks( i call it kissing). Their so cute, hes very settled in and started eating some free spray millet the shop gave me and so I let them both eat on that for a bit and then took it away. And yesterday he finally started to eat the seed mix i have for them. One thing I know is his beak is very sharp and it kinda hurts when he nibbles on you and hes very messy when he eats so i put the hood over the seed cup today and I will see if they will still eat, because I know he likes to sit in the food while he eats it:/

[birdgirl1216]

Also can you tell how old he is? The lady said he was still a baby but I didnt see a lot of stripes on the cap.

[Sarah]

Sunny is very very new, freshly weaned I would say. The dark on his beak will vanish quickly now. I would put him at... hmm...6-9 weeks with that much black left.  Still, every baby is different, he could be more. You will know when he is three months when he starts to shed feathers everywhere

[birdgirl1216]

Yea, wow i didnt think he was that young but hes so tiny and skinny lookin next to Sapphire. The second day we got him he started to eat the seed mix i give them so i was happy about that. Also sometimes him and Sapphire will like lock beaks and then jerk their heads sorta, is she trying to feed him or something?

[Sarah]

She is feeding him. Regurgitation is a normal bonding activity in parakeets of any age!

[birdgirl1216]

Aww thats cute!