Colour feeding

[andy p 32]

I've just got a pair of red factor canaries and I'm wundering what the best Colour food is, iv got some red egg food and a powder that gose in the water made by bogna what's your thoughts

[moss 70]

You want go wrong with the bogena pal just follow the instructions you can give the eggfood after the moult 2 x per week then if any birds lose any feathers they are still getting colour feed

[paulus 26]

have a read here mate http://www.npcnorwich.com/goodall.html

[moss 70]

Very good article but coloured canary and Norwich are different good all has some of the best Norwich in the country but colour feeding Norwich for show which this article is about is different from red canary as you don't want a Norwich red.

You won't go wrong following the article but will require a little more colour food in the water

[paulus 26]

Very good article but coloured canary and Norwich are different good all has some of the best Norwich in the country but colour feeding Norwich for show which this article is about is different from red canary as you don't want a Norwich red.

You won't go wrong following the article but will require a little more colour food in the water

hinckley and burbage were the best in the world for norwich canaries when i was a kid i remember the wrights and b, booth winning the national

[old hand 3]

to judge the ammount of powder to use go by the colour of the birds droppings

salmon pink needs a tad more powder

dark red a tad less

cheers

old hand

[andy p 32]

I'm mixing cous cous with quicko red food. droppings are a nice red

[Sherlock 42]

Know matter how much colour fed you give to a Norwich it will not go red, clear Norwich Yorkshire and lizard canaries turn orange with the correct amount of colour food. Red factor canaries turn red because they have the genes for it . the red factor canary was created in the nineteen thirties in Germany by a Hans Dunker he crossed a Dominant white canary with a Black Headed Red Siskin ( Carduelis cucullata ) . Some of the young males turned out to be fertile and these were back crossed to female canaries. In the the second cross he got fifty percent fertility in the hens and one hundered percent fertility in the males, theoretically he had created the red canary but they would not turn red because not only do they need the correct genes they also need red carotenoids in their diet. Some time in the early sixties the German pharmaceutical company Roche created a substance known as Carophyll. Poultry men soon found that when this product was fed to chickens the yolks of the eggs turned deep orange. In 1964 an English man named Jack Swift found that when he fed his canaries that were red Siskin crosses with this Carophyll Red they turned bright red. Unfortunately I do not colour feed my canaries but I would do what it says on the box. ATB Sherlock.

 

 

 

 

[andy p 32]

Excellent advice Sherlock thanks