Female canary nesting behavior

The Miracle of Breeding Canaries

Breeding color canaries can be a lot of fun.

Best food for breeding canaries

It is a glorious event to see the eggs develop and hatch into tiny little creatures that immediately start begging for food. One may refer to it as instinct, but I prefer to see in such behavior the life giving hand of God directing every step from the drive to mate, to the “instinctive” building of the perfect nest, to the incubation of the eggs, their periodic turning so that they are uniformly warmed, to the realization that the little open mouth just hatched must be fed.

The most amazing thing is to see new hens, who have not ever been exposed to an example of this behavior, “instinctively” know what to do and go on to raise a full nest of little canaries, sometimes as many as six. We have bred many hens who were ten months old when they first became mothers and we never cease to be amazed by the perfection of their actions, all without tutors, books, or even videos.

General Guidelines for breeding by feather types

Responsible breeding is very important to the creation of quality canaries.

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