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It’s really easy to carry out at home. You will need a breeding cage where parents place adult, healthy and strong. The breeding season runs from January to July. It usually begins by placing male and female in the same cage for breeding, but in separate compartments.

We should begin to administer a vitamin E, which is a stimulant of sexual cycle. A few days later, leaving only a grid of separation so that they can be seen, touched with the food bill and passed each other, as well as goat hair which build their nests on the basis of esparto.

After a few days in this situation the grid is removed and the encounter. Read the rest of this entry »

Feeding

Specific commercial preparations contain a mixture of canary seeds small with birdseed as a basic ingredient. It is highly recommended to add to this a number of other food products such as bars of different flavors, pasta or egg biscuit breeding millet, hemp as well as some homemade food: bread or rusk integral, cookie, apple, pear, peach, chicory, spinach, etc.. A calcium block or cuttlefish bone mineral supplement to provide the optimum development and peak bone. Sometimes as in the move or after any state of weakness, it must add to your diet a multivitamin (drops water soluble, for example).

The chicks are fed at first breeding cake or pasta, apples and lettuce, all regurgitated by their parents. Read the rest of this entry »

The canary is a small granivorous bird belonging to the class of the Passeriformes, originally from the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores (Serinus canaria) that has been raised and distributed widely throughout the world.

A bird is very small and convenient to take home. Resistant to cold winter temperatures if they are accustomed gradually, many live more than 15 years on a balcony, yes, provided it is a bit sheltered. The canary is sociable, not aggressive, not usually itch or even if we catch in hand and if they do not do much harm. Read the rest of this entry »