Canary origin
Canaries for the first time discovered by a French sailor, namely
Jean de Berthan Cout in the Canary Islands area around the 15th century ago. He made amazed the beauty of feathers and bird's voice sweetly. The canary has the Latin name
Serinus Canaria. Diversity of canaries at this point is the result of development of the wild canary. Besides natural conditions and crossbreeding that occurs produces various types of walnuts which have occurred since the 5th century ago.
Canary name has absolutely nothing to do with walnut, but the name is taken from the name of the island which is the original habitat of the canaries, namely the Canary Islands. While the islands' name is derived from the Latin word which means island canarias dog, because a lot of stray dogs that live on these islands in ancient times immemorial.
Types of Canaries
There are many variants of the canaries, but only a few are popular among bird lovers. And following a review of the types of
Canaries.
Border canaries
It is said that it is a kind of canary very popular among types of canaries. Border bird comes from the location of the border in England and Scotland. canary comes from cumberland luxury types. Border canary reaches a body length of about 14 cm. His trademark is to have a round shape as seen from any angle. Characteristic of this type canaries are her round so easy to judge when the race.
Gloster canaries
This type canaries body shape measuring no more 11 centimeters. And usually in the competition arena, canary Gloster body should not be more than 11 centimeters. The characteristics are striking in these birds is the color of the feathers are yellow, and its wings a little green, and the color of the tail are white, canary Gloster there also has crested, and it is called with walnuts Gloster Corona, while those not having crested called with Walnuts Gloster Consort.
Norwich canaries
The canary bird has its own history. Flam nation that maintains a weaver bird fled to England, to avoid the massacre of the Spanish. They live in the Norwich area in norflok (UK). They who preserve this bird. Norwich canary canaries today is interesting. This bird has a group of fur is thick and has a completely spherical shape. With a broad chest, short back wide, short wings and a short tail and short half-life as well. This bird has a green warnah interesting. These rare birds are white in color and length between 15-16 centimeters
Cinnamon canaries
These birds have in common with walnuts norwich and classified as avian interesting because it has all-round shape with a broad chest short back tail and beak wingspan short too long of these birds between 15-16 cm. And these birds are considered a type of beauty fur. Many bird lovers who believe that this is a kind of canary that has the most delicate feather compared with other types of canaries.
Yorkshire canaries
This bird is a hybrid canaries canary Lancashire and Belgium, the shape of this bird is sometimes depicted as a carrot upside down and have a habit of standing tall with long legs. This bird species is a species of bird that is most favored by bird lovers as a very melodious chirping. The bird's body length of about 15 to 17 centimeters
Lancashire canaries
Mentioned that the walnut is the largest species in this inggris.jenis now rarely found in its original form. These birds are more in crosses with other species to obtain offspring a big man. This kind of there having a crest which has the designation Lancashire coppy and there is also a plain head which called Lancashire plain head.
Waterslager canaries
Famous canary voice loud, loud but fun. The body length of about 16 cm this bird with cat fur tends to be dominant with soft textured. And beak looks sharper than other types of canaries. Often females incubate the eggs and lazy to overfeed their children, but males help incubate the eggs and take to overfeed their children.
Fife Fancy canary
Walnut is classified as a new species, this bird is the same shape as a walnut London Fancy, only smaller in size with the wings and tail feathers are white. The length of this bird is not more than 11 cm is very easy .Burung farmed fur and can provide a very wide variety. This is similar to the canaries canary border.
Scotch Fancy canaries
This type of bird among bird enthusiasts in the country of England, known as the Bird name O Circle. Because the formation of the head to the tail end during the competition semicircular. Scot Fancy bird has a small head is round little head canaries Belgium, slender neck and a long, but narrow shoulders fully charged and rounded, wings long and firmly attached to the body and long legs strong.
Roller canaries
Roller canary types descendant of German bred canaries in the Hartz Mountains. About 400 families farming on a large scale. This walnut dominate species of birds chirping canaries are good.
Crest canaries
Crested canary is already around 1950, and therefore is classified as a canary older types from other types of canaries. Beginning of this bird is known by the name Turn crown, and at the beginning of this century was known as the King of the fancy (King fantasy). The hallmark of this canary, amid his head expands forward to the beak almost covering her eyes, toward the back of the head also has a large shape and thick with dense and soft fur.
Frill canaries
This type of bird is classified as a large-bodied birds, because the length is 20 cm and is known as the canary Netherlands.
Spanish Timbrado canaries
This bird species is a type of canary chirping of new varieties developed in Spain around 1940 and 1950. The shape of the body resembles the shape of the original wild canary.
American Singer canaries
This type of bird is a cross between a canary border with roller canaries. This type of bird called a kind of canary best in terms of appearance as well as booms.
Lizard canaries
The canary bird species was nearly extinct in the 1900s due to the world war and pestilence. Length of this bird is approximately 14 cm and the characteristic of this bird had a feather pattern which resembles a lizard scales in yellow and white domination
Belgian Fancy canaries
This bird species is a species of bird that emphasizes appearance than voice or booms. The appearance of this bird looks like a bird with the head of a small defect like a snake. The downside of this kind of birds are they not good at incubating eggs and raising children.
Color breed Canary
This is a kind of canary bird species is very agile and has a variety of striking colors. And these birds including species of birds most famous in the world, and also birds is relatively easy in maintenance.
Canary Bird Care Tips
1. Train voice
Every spare moment, please try compare canaries with others who have voiced clever. If no, you can simply buy the tape so more easily. Add both worked mornings in because birds can more easily voice.
Do not try to bring canaries juxtaposed in because these can have an influence on your walnuts. Enough alone make itself heard. When you have been a little long, about one or two weeks juxtaposed, then do not keep. Enough 2-3 times in one week.
2. Drying
Absolute drying must be done every day. Canary should be dried within a reasonable time. 06 the time interval 00-11. 00 pm come on very sufficient for drying. Do not give too much to eat and drink while basking in because can have an influence on the sound.
Work drying in a large area or a large cage so the bird can freely move.
After drying is completed, away from sunlight For cooling. Wait until the bird situation not struggling. After that, give sufficient and nutritious food, like red apples, bananas, and other fresh fruit. Do not have time in the feed while drinking. When he finished eating, drinking and give the new water strived been cooked.
3. Food additives and vitamins
To lure in order to add his voice better yet, give vitamins to beverages obtained. This vitamin is sold in the market, like type Super chirping or Vitasol.
Farming guide Walnuts
Afdol not feel when having canary of superior offspring but not farmed. If only just maintain it, it's no challenge. True admirers walnuts, can be challenged to cultivate collection.
Indeed bird breed is not so difficult. Especially canaries can be farmed by small size simple enclosure. Besides, walnuts very productive adult females spawn, spawn once yielded 5 grains. Therefore very hurt when admirer walnut only just maintain it. Under this quick guide breeding canaries: Means of facilities need to be provided to the mating system of canary some of them prepare mating cages, cage in is equipped with a dining area and drink, two nest boxes in the given hay or pieces of paper. Candidate sires determination canary breeders, specify an adult. The ideal age walnuts ready to marry is 8 bln. until 3 th .. Differences in male and female canary is very recognizable. Male canaries posture generally smaller and slimmer than the female canary. In the male half is not thick, but somewhat thin female canary bit. Of the chirp, male canaries harder and varied, not the same as a female canary monotonous. The next step is pairing . Female canary cages hold his pace and canary males, so that both can both see and touch. When a mate is generally both are equally close, as well as related. The time has been positive both get along and be paired. The next step is to enter into the cage of marriage that has been provided. Let up to two or five days there. Observe carefully whether the 2nd sires were familiar and equally making out. Generally when the mate, the females can arrange nest eggs, by tearing fibers or paper. Once when laying female can lay out three to five eggs. Incubating the work done by females as well as males. The good moment while incubating, feeding should be noticed right. Feed and drinking water do not have time empty. After two weeks when the incubation, the eggs can hatch. Perhaps not all the eggs successfully orders yet, there are one or two items that failed. The bird chicks along 1bulan under the care of breeding females. Female breeders always overfeed feed her children. After 1 month old child ren walnuts can be separated from the sires and entered the cage enlargement.