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05-02-2008, 12:40 PM
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#9 | | | Re: The new kids If they are from this year (too early but people breed them off-season all the time, the poor things!), you won't be able to sex them. You'll need to wait until next breeding season when the male genitals look different from the females, they look the same when they are too young or the rest of the year. Just as a reference, once they go into breeding condition, the males will have a little feather-covered 'pipi' and the females will have a round lower abdomen with no 'pipi'. When they are at the peak of conditioning, the females will have what I call 'the baboon look' where their cloaca is: swolen, protruding and red.
If they are not song canaries, you might get away with keeping a male and a female together as long as the cage is very large but, if they are of a song breed (Hartz rollers, Spanish Timbrados or Belgian Malinois -aka waterslaggers), you will need to separate them too because the better the singer, the more aggressive the canary is and song canaries would attack and even kill females out of breeding season. |
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