Canaries Their Breeding Management

This antiquarian book contains a complete guide to keeping roller canaries, and includes information on their history, breeding, training, and management. Profusely illustrated and full of invaluable information and helpful tips, this volume is highly recommended for the novice bird keeper, and would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: “History”, “Colour Varieties”, “How to Establish a Strain”, “Selection of Breeding Stock”, “Roller Dietary”, “The Breeding Season”, “Song Inheritance”, “The Schoolmaster or Tutor”, “Preparations for Training Time”, etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.

This vintage book contains a complete and practical guide to the breeding, exhibiting, and general management of canaries. This accessible and profusely illustrated guide includes all the information an existing or prospective canary keeper might need to know, and it is highly recommended for those with a practical interest in the subject. The chapters of this book include: “Canary Keeping as a Hobby”, “Aviaries, Cages, and Fittings”, “Breeding and General Management”, “Moulting and Colour Feeding”, “Diseases and their Treatment”, “Seeds and their Uses”, “Exhibiting”, “The Belgian”, “The Scots Fancy”, etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.

"Canary Breeding and Management for Amateurs" is a novice-friendly and profusely-illustrated handbook on keeping canaries, with chapters on everything you might need to know from the construction of cages and perches, to common ailments and their treatment. This timeless guide contains a wealth of useful and practical information, making it ideal for existing and prospective canary owners alike. Contents include: "Birds", "Cages", "Perches and Platforms", "Whitewashing Cages", "Small Cages as a Cause of Disease", "Water", "Food", "Sand", "Preparing for Breeding", "The Egg", "Egg-bound", "Taking Eggs Away", "Young Birds Thrown out of Nest", "Putting the Young Under Another Hen", "Plucking the Young Birds", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with the original text and artwork.

"This bulletin, intended to meet the requests continually received for information on the care of canaries in sickness and health, is compiled from numerous sources, and includes also some personal experiences and observations of the author. In it the history of the domestication of the canary is touched upon and there is a brief account, with illustrations, of the common and fancy varieties, which are distinguished by shape and color. The chief usefulness of the bulletin is in its discussion of practical problems. There is a section on the style of cages and their sanitation. Detailed information is given concerning bathing, molt, and food, including the feeding of special foods for deepening the color of the birds. One chapter shows the possibility of breeding canaries in captivity and is designed as an aid to this. The concluding pages deal with the health of the birds. Methods of riding them of vermin are set forth, as well as instructions for caring for fractured legs and wings, and for the treatment of respiratory and intestinal diseases and of such ailments as loss of feathers. The bulletin is intended for all who are interested in canaries." -- p. [2]