including solid colored ones?
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Not all the Lutino (yellow) Albino (white) and the Vanilla (cream) doesn't have bars or stripes the the head when they are young but the green, blue, grey does. It goes in the first moult about 3-4months old
of course not ALL. all parakeets are different and unique in their own way. my parakeet didnt have stripes. he had a plain white head. there are different types of parakeets so i guess it depends. maybe a certain breed of parakeets all have stripes on their heads.
The coloured ones usually do, but Albinos and Lutinos don't. I have an albino one which I had from 6 wks, no stripes.
baby budgies (parakeets) have striped foreheads until they start going through their first molt, between 3-6 months. for the person who posted about their bird not having stripes (oh so squeamish)--it's because you probably got one that was already a little bit older, somewhere past that 3-6 month range. Maybe somebody just told you it was a younger bird, to trick you into buying it. pet stores sometimes do this, tell people the animal you are looking at is a baby when for all you really know, it might be a 'senior citizen'.
BUT...if your budgie is a lutino (all yellow with red eyes) or an albino (all white with red eyes), it will not have stripes as a baby, as these birds do not have the pigment to make the dark stripes. but you can also look at their eyes to guess their baby status. Baby budgies will look to have 'button eyes', as in no or very little iris showing (the white outer ring around the pupil). When they mature a bit more you can see the iris.
And...young budgies will have light purplish ceres (skin around the nostrils). They will turn brown to brownish pink for females, and dark blue for males. but also, if you have a pied variety (patches of white or yellow over a base color), or an Ino (lutino, albino), the cere may stay pinkish-purple, or even white even through adulthood, due to the lack of pigment.
lutino's and albino's have no stripes
all other budgies (parakeets) should have stripes until there first moult at around 8 months
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