Hi, so I haven’t posted for a while as my room has gone through quite a few transitions due to poor breeding results and a change of heart of what I want to keep. I have decided to sell the Yorkshire canaries and the Mosaics and keep Fife canaries again solely which is in some… Continue reading Big changes
Good afternoon, sadly the two Mosaic red browns died at two weeks through lack of feeding although the parents were trying. The chicks would call for food but not open their mouths. For me this is down to leaving the nest too early and I will not put the nest down to cage floor anymore… Continue reading Chicks dying
Morning, this is just a little update on current progress with my breeding season of 2017. Things have started very slowly and a little unsuccessfully as we are coming to the end of round one and I currently have six chicks with two of them being two weeks old now and rung up and the… Continue reading Update of canary breeding season 2017
As things stand, I have two mosaic red browns on set nests, one mosaic yellow agate topaz and one capped buff clear fife hen. I have one Green yellow Yorkshire who is building a nest also so just two pairs of Yorkshires that are currently not going down. I think this is mainly due to… Continue reading Breeding season end of March!
Good morning, I had my first egg this morning of the season. It was in the Mosaic yellow agate topaz nest and she is sitting nicely. I replaced it for a dummy egg. I am looking forward to seeing if there are any more eggs in the other nest that is built tomorrow but it… Continue reading First egg of the season!
Confusing times! So my Mosaic yellow agate topaz hen has had three rounds of infertile eggs which she laid in the corner of the cage before the cock was introduced. I was going away and my bird room was being sorted so I could not let her breed. Anyway I threw away the eggs. Now… Continue reading Confusing times!!
So I am trying the carbolic soap method to stick the nest pan liners in to the nest pans as it is apparently very offensive to red mite. It is definitely smelly so fingers crossed it will help!
Well I am attending Stafford Spring Show a week on Sunday on the 5th March 2017 with my friend. We are both picking up some birds there off breeders that we have arranged to meet there. I am getting two mosaic red brown hens which will be added to my stud of two hens and… Continue reading Stafford Spring Show
This week it is just a case of continuing the egg food twice a week whilst waiting for the bird room to be completed so that I can move them in. The hens are very much ready to breed now and it is hard to hold them back. I should not have got the lighting… Continue reading Weekly update 14/2/17
There are many different ways to prevent mite from what I have read but many of these old remedies may not work. From what I gather, red mite hate strong smells. For this reason, a lot of bird breeders will add garlic to the water in the form of granules or soak a couple of… Continue reading MITE – The “M” Word
Feathered Variety! 