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Post by tielkeets04 on Oct 23, 2004 14:10:50 GMT 10
I'm not into breeding canaries, but we have 3 males
I just got my daughter a crested canary and the pet shop owner said
dont breed crested to crested
now I'm interested in knowing why that is out of shear interest
Tanya
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Post by fischer on Nov 4, 2004 6:24:51 GMT 10
Hi Tanya, Sorry to be so long in answering this question, It seems that the idea of not breeding crested to crested canaries is because it may weaken the crest, this idea emenates from the specialist canary breeders, the breed being fairly rare in Australia, I guess the risk of inbreeding worries them. If you are interested a usefull canary site is listed below. Hope this helps.. Tony www.robhur.customer.netspace.net.auwww.canberra-canary.org.au |
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Post by tielkeets04 on Nov 4, 2004 7:23:44 GMT 10
thank you so much for your help and links
now if their rare may be I should let my teenager breed them
are they a hard bird to breed
tanya
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Post by fischer on Nov 4, 2004 13:52:59 GMT 10
Hi Tanya, You ask a question thats easy to answer, yes and no ;D. Some find it easy to breed Canaries, some don't, I'm in the latter group  . Breeding in cabinets is fairly straight forward, but to breed Canaries successfully takes a fair amount of constant attention, you can find a lot of information on whats required on the sites I gave you, I won't go into all that here, it could take up pages ;D. Put simply, there are 2 basic rules, if you feed egg and biscuit mix, and its a must for hens feeding young, remove it after a few hours, as it goes off quickly and can cause botulism in the young. The second rule is to remove the male bird from the hen as soon as the young have hatched, they do this to make the hen leave the nest more often to feed herself and the young, if you leave the male in he will just feed the hen on the nest and she wont get off at all, and sometimes the male will kill the young. If you breed the Crested canaries you have, I would still breed a crested to a normal canary, you will get bigger birds, crested to crested pairings tend to produce small birds without much vigor, and a lack of future breeding potential. The reason I don't have much sucess is that Im trying to establish a strain of Canaries that will breed and feed young in an Aviary, another set of problems and bigger headache ;D. Hope this helps. Tony . |
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Post by tielkeets04 on Nov 4, 2004 16:00:32 GMT 10
thanks for the advice , I got her another crested and a plain , while they are available , I didnt get any of the ones with the leg bands , but would the bands tell you who bred them ?
it seems strange that she had so many arrive in the shop at one time and she is selling them at her normal canary price
they seem to be of a nice quality with good crests
tanya
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Post by fischer on Nov 4, 2004 17:00:17 GMT 10
Yes, the leg rings have the issuing Club initials and a number that is recorded as an individual club member, so you can trace the breeder if you know the bird club. There will be a lot of canaries for sale at the moment because its nearly the end of their breeding season, (spring ), but if you want a guaranteed whistler its best to wait a little longer as males take longer to mature.  . Cheers Tony |
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Post by tielkeets04 on Nov 5, 2004 6:36:07 GMT 10
out of the 3 one of them is singing , he has a totaly different song to the average canary this makes for a nice change tanya  |
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