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From: scott@mccall.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Questions about Budgies
Message-ID: <1555.25480de6@mccall.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 89 08:12:21 GMT
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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My wife and I are basically new parakeet(budgie) owners(we've had them 
for a little over a year).  We had two females(Pumkin and Peanut) for 
about 6-9 months who got along pretty well, then we bought another one
(Cheebee, thinking it was female, but I think it is male).  Now Cheebee 
and Peanut get along good but have relaitvely nothing to do with Pumkin.
We think Pumkin is very lonely but not sure.  We were wondering whether 
we should get another bird for Pumkin.  But don't want another one that
will ignore her either.
Here are my questions:

Does the Cere (the wasy area above the beak) tell the sex budgies?
Ie. brown/tan for females and blue for males?

Are budgies homogenius(I think this is the right word) with their mates?
Meaning do they keep the same mate?

What are the pluses and minuses of getting another budgie?  Will it
help Pumkin with her lonelyness?

Thanks
-- 
Scott Davis (800)255-2762, in Kansas (913)776-3683
The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
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