Breeding - l'élevage du canari

Whatever the case, you will first of all couple an intensive individual by another clearer individual (known as schimmel). In orderto obtain a better result on the level of the plumage. The breeding is done in general in batteries of breeding. Which in general contain ten cages and which are rather practical to clean. These batteries can be of this type:

Breeding Period

The breeding is made beginning Marsh (middle of Marsh) until end-August. You will then place at the disposal of the female an enough large nest to raise four small maximum (on average. The big shot so far is of 9 eggs) as well as materials useful to its construction (strands of wire, small pieces of jute or paper towel…). The nest could be of one of these types:

Couples Preparation

At the end of the day you will introduce the male into the cage. And you will have to wait until the coupling is done.

A few days after the female will have deposited in the nest its first egg which you will replace by a factitious plastic egg, you will make in the same way for the following.

Eggs handling

Meanwhile you will have deposited them in a box filled with sand. Once the laying finished will at daybreak give them all in the nest and will await 13 to 14 days of incubation. In order to see all the small birds being born at the same time:

Food supplements

The following days you will bring in complement of daily feeding. One mash with egg which you will have prepared in the following way. Crush a hard egg yolk in a plate and incorporate y two melba toasts coldly crushed, are useful their just as it is. The male and the female will be made a pleasure of nourishing their small with this mash :

Evolution of young birds

At the end of one week. The first feathers appear on the young canaries. And at the end of two weeks their plumage is almost complete. At the end of the third week they come out of the nest. And with the fourth they are separated and you can then separate them from their parents. Then you let put back the adults one week approximately and you will be able to give them to brood. It is however necessary to limit the number of incubations with two because you would exhaust the females.

A last advice: before making them brood to treat your cages and your nests against the lice. With the powders and the bombs which you will find in the trade because that could avoid you many nuisances. Indeed, the lice could place themselves in the nests. And to weaken your young canaries by sucking their blood, then they would be lost.