What kind of Carnary is this
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west finch
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Yes Tint , As Blujay has said they are called Consorts . You breed a consort to a Corona to produce both consort and corona young . Never breed two coronas together as it is a lethal gene and 25% of the young will die or be dead in the egg . You can breed two consorts together and produce only consorts . But this year I paired two consorts together and produced three out of four coronas , this is not suppose to happen but it did . I spoke to some of the better breeders and they can not understand how it happened . So I would say this Gene is not fully understood even when the Gloster has been bred for over 70 years .
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Canary
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Getting off topic, but West Finch was this a second nest for the hen? Had you bred the hen earlier with a Corona?
The reason I ask is that I have just come across a study carried out in 1987 that discusses sperm storage in canary hens which makes interesting reading. I have never heard of this before. I was planning to bring it up at my club next month with some of the older members to see if they had come across these results.
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v104n0 ... -p0771.pdf
The reason I ask is that I have just come across a study carried out in 1987 that discusses sperm storage in canary hens which makes interesting reading. I have never heard of this before. I was planning to bring it up at my club next month with some of the older members to see if they had come across these results.
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v104n0 ... -p0771.pdf
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west finch
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That’s an interesting article Canary .
I never thought birds could store sperm for so long . But when you consider where the testes are located in the cock bird and high body temp there would be no reason why the sperm would not survive in the body of the hen for a reasonable amount of time.
In the case of my Glosters the hen was paired to a corona cock prior to being paired for the second time to a consort and produced four young . The first pairing was incompatible they never bonded only fought and she never started to build a nest showed no interest . But if this theory is correct they may have mated and even that the second pairing and subsequent eggs occurred about a month later it now can not be ruled out that the first cock was the sire to the chicks .
Thanks for the link Canary looks like the mystery has a logical explanation . And I thought I had something special
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PS , Thanks for the PM I think sharing this may help others .
I never thought birds could store sperm for so long . But when you consider where the testes are located in the cock bird and high body temp there would be no reason why the sperm would not survive in the body of the hen for a reasonable amount of time.
In the case of my Glosters the hen was paired to a corona cock prior to being paired for the second time to a consort and produced four young . The first pairing was incompatible they never bonded only fought and she never started to build a nest showed no interest . But if this theory is correct they may have mated and even that the second pairing and subsequent eggs occurred about a month later it now can not be ruled out that the first cock was the sire to the chicks .
Thanks for the link Canary looks like the mystery has a logical explanation . And I thought I had something special
.PS , Thanks for the PM I think sharing this may help others .
Work smarter not harder !