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  1. pappabear
    would anyone be interested in this book before i list it on ebay , looking for £20 including postage by recorded delivery
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    newspapers what i use gnasher , i just change it everyday
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    not on any other forums mate , did read about some exhibition budgies being taken in cage and aviary last summer . the guy was retired i forget his age but he was getting on and his local bird club replaced some birds for him and updated his security , they went to buy spare cocks from him turned up 3 of them and he thought they were studying his setup and not really interested in the cock birds .
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    had similar happen when selling chickens , i had rare breed norfolk greys sold a trio and lost the rest 2 days later but couldnt proove anything so now have a couple of cameras looking over the garden and no longer breed chooks . some people are too low to describe , im on the herts essex border and before xmas we had a city link van with the lettering removed crewed up europeans driving around looking for dogs they even had a woman with them that would walk the same park all day with a dog striking up conversations with other dog walkers and tipping the blokes the wink asto what ones to fol
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    yep just a normal bulb no dimmer or anything i have the door open when i turn their light off at night for about 10 minutes so they can find their perches and touch wood no problems , i know its not ideal but for now its all i have
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    the birds are in there , its just a large cupboard under the stairs , full height at one end tapering to 6ft the other it does have electrics in there so they are not in the dark . when the rat visited i placed them in normal budgie cages as that was all i had and placed them in thereto keep them safe , a few weeks later a guy was selling the triple cages on preloved so i bought them as with the slides out they are 52" wide so plenty of room i think where the light was on in the cupboard this got them into breeding mood and i have decided to leave them in there for this year so i can get thing
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    i will do , all the planning will be worth it in the end . i paid £20 for my red/black hen but havent found a cock bird nearby yet . at the moment i just have 2 triple cages in the cloakroom under the stairs and a large vision cage to house the chicks when they are old enough . i do have a 6x4 shed with 6x6 flight attached that did house my finches and canaries until potsy rats paid a visit and turned all the finches including chicks in their nest boxes and a lovely pair of intensive reds into their dinner all in one night things . so now deciding whether to rat proof the shed or take it do
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    what a stunning little bird
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    good question , i already have a lovely red/black cobalt hen which is referred to in the book as a intensive bronze so i am looking for a cock bird to pair with her , she is currently paired with a recessive white and sitting on 4 eggs . if i had the space and the money i would like some of the ino , agates and topaz i also love the pics he has of the siskins my favorites are the recessive white brown opals and the dimorphic mosaic red agate opals , cant wait till geoff gets in touch telling me they are ready to collect
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    got home today and the wife gave me parcel that came through the post . when i opened it i found she had bought me a copy of colored , type and song canaries by g b r walker ( a guy i have been lucky enough to order some birds from ) admittedly i have only had a quick look through and read a few chapters but this looks like its going to be a useful book and one i would not hesitate to recommend to anyone getting into canaries . the section on sex linked genes is going to be really handy ( once i can get my head around it ) and the pictures are really good even the weird looking types like
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    thanks guys will let you know what happens
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    thanks pete, havent used dummy eggs decided to do it naturally , have the egg food and soaked seed , rings arrived yesterday just split rings as im not too interested in showing at the minute and that way i can tell which chicks came from which pair , we have a large coat room built into the front room and my cages are in there so nice and warm . basically just doing it for my own enjoyment for this year and hopefully i will be alot more experienced and take it a bit more serious next year . the plan is to just go with the flow and enjoy breeding them for now
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    both my red factor and red/black cobalt have both now started sitting tight these will be my first canaries that i have bred myself , cant wait till hatch day
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    beautiful birds
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    that would be brilliant , thankyou
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    you must be over the moon , bet your ticking all the colours you like in your book , would love to see some pics when you get them
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    really lking forward to getting them , do you have any pics of yours tong po ?
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    dont mean to be viscious i googled coloured canaries for sale and the east anglian zone of the ccba came up so had a look just to be nosey and this guys phone number has the same dialling code as mine so thought it would be rude not to get in touch ( thats what i told my missus ) unfortunately he had already sold his spare birds for this season but has a list for birds hatched this year so i had to take advantage . i cannot find anyone else breeding the recessive white brown opals so will be nice to have some of the more unusual ones . needless to say im well chuffed
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    i got his email from the ccba page , dropped him a line asking if he had any birds for sale and he offered to place me in his order book for birds that hatch this year , im going to buy his book might even ask him to sign it when i go to collect the birds , he breeds mosaic red agates , opals and classics and he is local to me too so all good
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    just reserved some birds that i will be collecting in the autumn for breeding next year from the coloured canarie author g walker cannot wait getting recessive white brown opals and mosaic red agate opals . to say im pleased is an understatement . here are some pics of the colours im getting from a dutch website
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    cheers for the offer gnasher will bear it in mind but i do prefer the more active birds , wonder if the crest interferes with their eyesight making them less mobile , thinking of getting some whiteblack opals or onyxs if i can find them but it seems to be every time i look on the computer i find others i would like
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    hi gnasher , you had red factors and red/black cobalts from me , how are they getting on . i had a rat get in the aviary and take all my birds apart from 7 of my canaries so they are indoors at the moment , might have to rethink the glosters as dont want a lazy bird just sitting still .
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    cheers pete have sent you a pm with my email address , there are so many different colours and feather types , im looking to get some of the crested glosters , want to breed a nice crested red just because i like them and cannot find any
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    found this one on the canary breeders page on facebook , says its a red/black cobalt x onyx
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    what i was told when i first started keeping them last year was that intensive birds have feathers that have no white at all and the non intensive have a white frosting to the edges giving a more dilute colour , and that 2 intensive birds should not be paired as it will result in the chicks having the lethal gene and only around 75% of the chicks would survive , but im still learning and try to read everything i can find ( not that i understand it all )
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