Canary Breeding Season 2013

[finchbreeder]

Have only seen 1 chick so far and it vanished after about 4 days. Now have the 3 hens in the main avairy down, but nothing happening with the pair in the 2nd avairy. Did do a total rearrange though.
LML

[Canary]

I currently have 65 chicks from 16 hens, with a further 4 hens due shortly. 48 Border chicks and 18 Lizard chicks.

The late start has certainly improved fertility and most hens went to nest within 4 days. I still had 3 clear nests - one where a cock was sick and not interested, however, one was a lIzard canary cock that has never missed before.

Overall a pretty good start. Now keeping up the egg food and sprouted seed.

[elferoz777]

I am expecting my first lot of Lizard young.

I have two pairs courtesy of Canary.

The keenest pair failed the first nest but the second nest looks like it will have 3 from 3 eggs hatch....they are due this weekend.

The other pair only recently started some serious nest building. I am expecting the fist egg this weekend.

[finchbreeder]

Finally have small chicks appearing in the main avairy after that early failed nest. Was begginning to think they weren't going to settle into it.
LML

[Canary]

Elferoz

When did you put your Lizards together? I am interested to know if you went early or not.

I have a few friends that went early this year.

One at Wollongong who said he paired his birds on 1/9/13 ended up with 70 clear eggs out of 90 eggs in the first round. Most now have laid the second round and have been fertile.

I was talking to someone else at Merrylands yesterday and he also said he paired up on 1/9/13 and had almost the same result. Now has around 70 chicks.

I usually don't pair my birds until 15/9 and that extra 2 weeks does make a huge difference in my bird room. As you have seen on this forum, some people with light and heat are able to get their birds in breeding condition a lot earlier.

Good luck with the canaries.

[wagga]

A friend in Port Macquarie has informed me that most of his canaries are on their 3rd nest for the season. One prolific pair is on their 3rd nest with 6 chicks and previously had clutches of 4 and 5.

[branchez]

As far as cup nesters go just checked my pair of Yellow Hooded Siskins to find 4 newly hatched young with full crops,fingers crossed.
Jack

[Canary]

I ended up with 146 chicks from the 2013 breeding season - 107 border canaries from 20 hens and 39 Lizards from 4 hens. Most of the Borders had 2 nests and I let 2 Lizard hens have a 3rd nest.

It is well into the moult at the moment, with feathers all over the floor every afternoon.

A few of the early chicks are well advanced and I have selected 3 Borders and 1 Lizard that look promising to start their show cage training. Most of the canaries will not be through the moult for another 2 to 3 weeks, so it is early days yet.

My first show for 2014 will be at Canberra on 13 April followed by shows almost every weekend for 11 weeks until early July.

[wagga]

Update on friends birds for 2013. 71 chicks from the 8 pairs of border canaries all bred in cabinets. He admitted that a lot of his pairs had to be stopped from starting their 4th nest, If I had not seen his birds through out the season you would probably not believe this breeding results of 71 canaries on perch.