Peculiarities in nesting of canaries. How to bread canaries
(Difficulties in laying eggs)
If at the time of laying eggs the female canary stays bristled
up and immovable, this could mean that it has difficulties in
laying eggs. The mature egg, ready to be laid, cannot pass
through the cloaca ? the reasons can be different. The normally
formed egg cannot be laid by the female only when it is ill or
weak. In extraordinary situations very often it happens so that
the egg has no shell and only an egg with a shell can press the
muscles of the oviduct ? a soft egg without a shell can do this.
The shell does not form only when the organism of the female
bird does not have enough calcium. Excessively young females
very often have difficulties in laying eggs.
IMPORTANT! If you do not have enough experience, take the bird
to a vet. Only a very experienced selectionist can afford to try
different types of help.
Suggestions for advanced ones:
- Turn on the infra red light.
- With a pipette drip a drop into the cloaca. It very often
helps and after half an hour the egg gets out.
- Very easy and carefully massage the area around the cloaca.The
egg without a shell cracks and practically drips out.
Controversially - the normally formed egg should not crack as
pieces of the shell can cause internal traumas.
How to prevent nesting?
Generally female canaries are ready to nest from spring till the
beginning of summer which makes it possible to nest once -twice
a year, the same as the free living canaries. The delicate
domestic canaries could ? fall out ? of this rhythm and to be
ready to nest for excessively long time. More than 2 nestings a
year are very exhausting for the female bird. In such cases you
should interfere and prevent them. This, of course, can be done
after the first nesting in case that you don't want other small
ones.
One of the possibilities is not to give the female bird any
opportunity to make a nest, this means to take out all materials
necessary to make a nest. Sometimes this reduces its desire to
build a nest. However, many female birds go on by plucking
feathers from themselves or from the male canary. In such cases
you have no other chance than allowing the bird to build the
nest and to lay eggs. Then replace every egg laid with an
artificial one. The female bird can incubate these eggs as long
as it wishes. Finally remove the nest ? you should not trouble
that the female bird will suffer from psychiatrical shock and
will be sad. Such cases in wild nature can be seen very often.
Laying eggs is not a guaranty to bring up a progeny, they could
not be inseminated. What you should not do? To give medication
which prevent nesting.First of all they are not very efficient
and second they are harmful very often.