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 to remove the grill and let the two love birds free. After such a strong desire to be reunited, sometimes the first reaction of canaries, intimidated, or avoided by standing some distance from each other, or even argue. But peace was soon made, we see the kisses exchanged, food that the male is in the beak of the female, which accepts it.

The coupling
The female canary becomes nervous and often heard her cry for help. She is in constant motion, flaps its wings, flying from perch to perch. While the male sings constantly and feeds his mate. He courts her by running a dance called 'Parade'. The coupling itself is next and lasts one to two seconds. The female squats on its perch, the male jumps on his back, his tail around the female's cloaca and the press against it.

The Nest
There are several commercially kinds of nests, plastic, metal or clay, to hang in a corner of the cage, this is done, it will have on the floor pieces of cotton wool or son, that the female can carry them in her nest to make it warmer and more comfortable. This is necessary even if in practice, the nest, as arranged, is ready for eggs. The preparation of a layer is an instinctive activity which can not be deleted. Nest building can last from two days to a week. At the end, exhausted the female lays at the bottom of the nest and lay down, the timing of egg laying has come.

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