The Hygrometer and Thermometer Canaries

I installed a hygrometer and a thermometer in my room kennel is very convenient, especially when breeding. The moisture content will allow me to know if I should spray the eggs or not, to facilitate hatching. The thermometer will inform me if I have to raise the temperature in the room using a small electric heater. The humidity characterizes the degree of humidity of moist air (or relative humidity), and is measured with a hygrometer. The hygrometer is the most simple hair hygrometer, which uses the property of horse hair or human hair to lengthen or shorten proportionally when the relative...

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The diffuser of Pyrethrum

This is an automatic device that broadcasts on a regular basis and a flexible dose of pyrethrum in your local natural plant breeding. A diffuser for about 20m ² of living.The plant Pyrethrum is a natural biological insecticide that has two unique qualities:    Rapid destruction of flying and crawling insects: flies, mosquitoes, fleas, mites, ants, wasps, mites, red mites, lice ... gray.    Potent repellent against flying and crawling insectsSo it destroys all insects entering a room, including mosquitoes that can carry smallpox and lice (red and gray) which inhibits...

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Habitat Canaries Cage

A canary can be accommodated in several types of structures: a cage, a small aviary, an outdoor aviary ... For each structure, certain rules must be respected to ensure that the canary or (s) to feel better about their environment .Cage and AccessoriesBefore talking about the subject, it should be a small dot on the location plan. Two factors must be taken into account: the canary is an animal sensitive to air flow and also the change in brightness and also the cage will generate dirt (splashing water, sand or seeds). We must find the location before you buy the animal and the cage.    ...

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Construction of an outdoor aviary

It is important to prepare the ground and the foundations of the aviary, both to stabilize and to protect it from rodents. You may be required to use a casing to hold the soil when you dig the base. Keep the lawn you have for later use in the outer parts.Below the ground, you can use cinder blocks, but on the surface, the bricks are more aesthetic. Think of climbing walls, overlapping the bricks for the structure is solid. Maybe you'll need the services of a professional mason.There are models of aviaries very different from each other. In the case below, the bottom panel is open to provide additional...

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Seed germinator

The seed propagator can easily be sprouted seeds to germinate say. It is made in the case of five containers.The first container starting at the top, lets get the water that can be discharged. Namely, that we must fill up until 1 cm below the rim.The three transparent containers containing the sprouts.The last container harvest the water has drained.This is the type of seed to germinate you can use, I use a mixture of seeds from Beyers composed as follows:      shuttle      rape      hemp      Niger     ...

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True Light Neon Arcadia, for healthy birds

Why is a lamp designed specifically for birds? Unlike humans, birds see ultraviolet light that is part of the spectrum of natural daylight. The bird needs the UV for reproduction and feeding - a bird without UV is a bit like a man who sees in black and white, or worse. Even in black and white, man is able to recognize the sex of its congeners. By cons, some species of birds require UV to differentiate males from females. If the bird lives in a house, it is necessary to provide an ultraviolet light. A normal household lighting is not enough. In addition, most home systems are changing the natural...

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Canaries Air Purifier and Ionizer

Within a room, the pollutants are many different sizes. Air purifiers are designed to reduce exposure to these pollutants, they correspond to chemicals or allergens. These devices can be classified into two groups according to the method of filtration, mechanical or electrical. To remove toxic gases and odors, it is necessary to use other techniques, particularly absorption on activated carbon or some crystals (commonly used for water filters). Air purifiers have filters mechanical performance vary widely. The decision of the particles can be made by sedimentation (deposition on a filter based...

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Essential oil diffuser

Called essential oil (or sometimes plant essence) the concentrated liquid and hydrophobic volatile aromatic compounds of a plant. It is obtained by distillation or chemical extraction solvent (water, alcohol, etc.).. Contrary to what the name implies, these extracts may not be oily."Product fragrant, generally of complex composition, obtained from a raw vegetable botanically defined either by steam distillation of water or by dry distillation, or by a mechanical process without adequate heating. The essential oil is most often separated from the aqueous phase by a physical process involving no...

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Canaries Dimmer Besser Elektronik Gold Star - Manual

INSTALLATION Installation of bed-dawn simulator is simple and trouble-free, but requires, as all units subject to a supply voltage, the observance of certain rules:     Connect the system to an electric (220V 50Hz), consistent with current standards, equipped with earth.     Do not take powers above those recommended for each outlet <2> <3>.     Do not open, whatever the reason, the container of the simulator. Inspections and repairs must be performed by qualified personnel only.     Protect the simulator...

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The ASM or The Art of Hand-Reared

The ASM itself is practiced by saw to tame fun (especially for the hooked beaks) but often also for birds such as canaries for which we have an obligation to practice because of the vagaries of life (small not fed by the parents or brood and surplus real difficulty for parents to feed all these people enough. We may use a ASM and avoid unnecessary losses. Food for livestock are mainly Handmix Orlux from home to home and Nutribird A21 Versele-Laga, these preparations can bring food or supplement already given by the parents so as not easily see them die. Many to this day, farmers hooked beaks...

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Preparing For Breeding With Bleaching OCEMYCINE

It should start 8 weeks before the first egg that can be estimated in late March if it is the couplings around 15 March. This is the period most suitable when using natural light whose duration is clearly increasing in light of the season. This is the method I use but others can advance these dates by doing artificial lighting in their local programmed to gradually increase the length of day and have thus, nesting in February or even January. Before describing my preparation program I have a point about how to prepare OCEMYCINE. OCEMYCINE is sold in bottles of 12 grams or 3 grams. 3g vial:...

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Learn More About Eggs

In sexual reproduction, the egg is the first stage of the life of an individual. It's a cell, after fertilization of an egg (female gamete) (that is to say the merger with a male gamete: sperm for animals or pollen to plants). This cell grows by successive divisions to form the embryo. The original and still in common parlance, they called the whole egg formed the organization that develops before birth and its protective environment. Indeed, in birds, reptiles and monotremes, the female surrounds the egg shell, hard or flexible depending on the species. It also gives the name to an unfertilized...

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Reproduction - Instructions - Progress

In spring the spawning period begins. It is best to choose a couple in the fall because the birds have finished molting and can take the time to meet during the winter. You have to put the couple in a separate cage with a grid or a partition, the male on one side, the female on the other. The male sings with passion and enthusiasm is the way he express his desire for the female is on the other side of the wall. For its part, the female shows that she appreciates the court waving his wings against the cage, chirping softly, and she shows her desire to prepare the nest for breeding. It is time...

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