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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2021 22:35:16 GMT
So, when I started on this forum, I thought my two new budgies Theurge and Thaumo were both male, but since their ceres started to change, I realized that Theurge and Thauma are actually both female; I never knew before that young budgie ceres were the opposite colors 😅. Anyways, Thauma's cere is now brownish and starting to get a little rougher. Theurge, however, hers started to turn a little brown at one point, but then went back to being light blue without having turned full brown. I know she's matured, her forehead's molted out of her stripes into solid yellow, but she's still got a rather smooth blue cere. I'm wondering, is this indicative of dominance among females, as in the ones who's ceres have turned mean they're the more dominant? Thauma definitely seems to be the dominant of the two, and I certainly remember them bickering a lot during the time their colors were shifting. I wonder if this sort of color-stunting happens in males, too.
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Post by Hezz on Sept 14, 2021 0:56:35 GMT
It could be a dominance thing, or not. Only the budgies could tell you and they aren’t sharing the info. It definitely has been known to happen with pairs of males, but also some hens simply are not interested in breeding, their ceres never change; others will go in and out of breeding season very obviously, and others never lose the nut-brown cere at all, or only when they become ill.
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