how to tell when a budgie is ageing

[jonathanH]

i was just wndering how you can tell when a budgie is getting old is there anyway of telling?

[Joey]

um....they run into alot more health problems.

[Kelly27]

I've got an older budgie and she has arthritis and can't fly. You can tell just by looking at her that she is older! ;)
Kelly
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[Budgiekin]

Many budgies as they become older become a lot more mellow. They don't get as excited, (or at least not as easily excited.)

[Bea]

Blinkie's mum was 6 when she died, the oldest out of my budgies, and she looked like she'd been through war. She just had this old look about her....partly cause she had been through battles over breeding rights, etc. She was beautiful though.

[Kelly27]

Many budgies as they become older become a lot more mellow. They don't get as excited, (or at least not as easily excited.)
Green is quite mellow too. Things just don't excite her like they used to.
Kelly
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[Smoothy]

young budgies will have bars on their head all the way down to the cere. At about 3-4 months of age, a budgie will go through its first molt, and the top feathers on the head will be replaced and will no longer be striped. So a budgie with stripes down to the cere has not gone through its first molt and is less than 3-4 months old. A budgie with a white or yellow cap (depending on color variety) has gone through its first molt and is therefore older than 3-4 months.
A budgie with a completely black eye is probably under 4 months old. A budgie with a dark grey iris is probably 4-8 months old. A budgie with a light grey or brown iris is probably older than 8 months.