| My Story Page. |
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| On this page I will tell you a little about the birds I am keeping at the moment and some I have had in the past. I am one of the fortunate people who can keep and breed the type of birds I wish. I would like to share my good luck with people who to unseen circumstances cannot enjoy the personal feeling of keeping and showing birds. |
| Some of photo's used on this site have been bred by other people and I thank them from one breeder to another. |
| When I started to keep birds I was maybe like alot of others and did not know which type to breed with. After having many types I decided to show the GLOSTER canary. This type gives you many colors and variations from just one pairing. The first mistake was buying from auctions as I found out these birds were the ones that breeders sold as not being show quality. I finally joined a local cage bird society club and met some breeders that put me on the right path. |
| After I had made my mind up to change the variety of canary,I had always had a fancy for the Norwich from when I had British and use to mule with them. I went to see one of the big men with this variety about buying some,I was told maybe next year. Yes I got four pair and have been building my stock up of which I now have twenty three for the 2001 breeding season. I use Fife canaries to brood and rear the young NorwichBecause they will not do anything but lay eggs as it as been bred out of them.I do get the odd one that as sat the eggs but after about ten days she will leave them so now I remove them. They seem a very lazy breed but I enjoy them. |
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| My Norwich Canaries |
| My Feeders the Fife canary. |
| I have tried differant types of feeders and found the Fife is about the most eager and easy breed to keep for using as my foster parents. They are always full of life and very pleasant to keep.The total opposite to the Norwich. For anyone starting up in the hobby they are a very good variety to start with. As they are sometimes known the Little gem. I only let them rear one round of Norwich then one of their own.I think they or any other breed have done enough hard work at that. |
| Red Factors |
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| I only keep four pair of these each year to breed with.It is a variety I took a fancy too some years ago and have kept them to add a bit of colour to my sheds. the main reason I did not make them my breed for showing was the colour feeding but the way I do it now it would be possible,which I will explain later. This variety if I remember right came about by a accident when a Black-headed Siskin mated with a canary and they produced a fertile mule.This was line bred and was found to have a pink tinge and if colour fed it gave a lovelybird called the Red-factor. If you do not colour feed them you will get a nice pinky bird. |
| My way of colour feeding |
| When I started colour feeding some years ago I mixed it in the water but found I was not getting the same strength everytime,this gave some pale patches and some burning. I now use a small pepper pot and sprinkle a few grains on the eggfood every two days. This is done from when the chicks are six weeks old till after the show season ends. If you do not carry on doing it if they lose a feather it will be a natural colour. The following year it is done just before they start to moult. I use Carophyll red for the factors and orange for the Norwich. |