| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
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This is the story of a love that can't last :-)
I have a one legged female canary named Eileen,
(get it... I lean :-)
As she was alone I put a single male society finch
in her cage for company. This was done about four
months ago.
Twice in the past couple of months I have found
single Canary eggs in the nest they share. Now I
know that it is not all that unusual for birds to
lay eggs when they bond with someone/something.
My surprise today was when I witnessed them "in the
act"! I have seen the mating ritual of this type of
finch many times and there was no mistake about what
his intentions were. She adopted a submissive position
with her back arched and her tail raised and he mounted
her!
Now I know I won't have a Canarafinch but this behavior
seemed totally bizarre. Has anyone else heard of anything
like this?
Should I seek the advice of clergy and preach abstinance :-)
chet (who has a flock of sicko's)
p.s. no more late night National Geographic shows for these guys!
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| 816.1 | CAN-FINCH or FINCH-RY?? | ABACUS::BOURGAULT | Fri Jul 30 1993 13:28 | 11 | |
Chet,
I believe that there is such a thing as a canary and finch cross,
however the babies are a hybrid and are sterile (mules). Seaworld
in Salem, NH had a few once. They are truly beautiful birds -
unfortunately they are a hybrid and the hybrid cannot reproduce itself.
I don't recall what type of finch was crossed with the canary.
So you might get fertile eggs. It would be worth seeing what you get.
Keep us posted.
Denise
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| 816.2 | Finch/canary crosses/Hybrids | RAGMOP::COMPTON | Fri Jul 30 1993 14:00 | 14 | |
Hi Chet, I had a female green singing finch and a clear white male border canary as companions to one another and was told that they could actually produce live young. The female pestered the male in this case so much that I separated them and got mates of their own species for them. I think her behavior was unusual and your canary hen's is more typical, late night shows or not ;') Re: Hybrids...I'm going to start a new note on this because I'd like to see what information is out there on that. I know there is much controversy in the bird fancy in general. Linda | |||||
| 816.3 | GERBIL::DUPONT | Fri Aug 27 1993 11:16 | 24 | ||
The saga continues...
These two laid a few more eggs but they always broke.
My parakeets starting laying eggs,(third clutch in a row),
which I thought would be bad for them. As a result I
removed the breeding box as well as the eggs.
On a whim I put three keet eggs in the canary/finch nest
figuring that the eggs would not develop and this would
keep the canary/finch combo from producing eggs.
You guessed it... one egg hatched!!! That was about three
days ago and thus far the baby parakeet seems to be doing
just fine. The crop looks full and the canary/finch are
very protective of it.
Can this work? Can a one legged canary and a finch be good
foster parents to a parakeet baby? This is all getting very
strange :-)
chet
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