clipping gone wrong

Question
just wondering what to do........accidently cut too high when clipping budgie nails.bled a little and then stopped but now its started again.seems to be alot.will it just heal itself?
also....thought the bird was a boy when i got him as the people said he was, however his beak thing is brown now....also is a bit dry and scaley....if he had that scale thing could he still be a boy but just cant see the colour?

Answer
Hi, Ellie.  Thanks for posting your questions/concerns.

You can use baking flour to stop bleeding.  Pack the flour at the end of the nail or hold the budgie's nail down into some flour that you put in the palm of your hand until the bleeding stops.  A budgie can bleed to death in minutes if you can't get bleeding stopped.  Yes, it will heal itself, but you might find your budgie holding it's leg up until it heals.  Clipping too high like this would be like clipping your fingernail to short and the discomfort associated with that.  When you clip nails, you should only clip the tip off if you can't see the vein that runs through the nail.  

A male will have a blue cere; female is brown/tan/beige.  The dryness and scaliness is normal for a female's cere.  I'm afraid your budgie is a female, Ellie!

Baby budgies are hard to sex until they are about 3-4 months old.  This is when their cere turns the adult color.  Some experienced breeders can sex them earlier, but sometimes they can be wrong.  

Come back if you have more questions.

Chrys