GENERAL CANARY
Canary FAQ
How To Buy A Canary
Buying Pet Store Birds
Interpreting Bird
Bands
Canary
Classics - Just about everything canary-related is available on this
webpage!
GENERAL CARE
Basic Bird Care
Feeding Your
Canary
Food Tips and Recipes
The Importance of
Hygiene
First Aid For Birds
Stress
Canary Cage
Recommendations
Canary Cages and another
on Flight Cages
Lighting Management for
Birds - fantastic article discussing how canaries are affected by
lighting. Offers a light table for bringing birds into breeding condition.
Photosensitivity -
article about lighting for canaries.
List of safe
plants
Toxic Foods, Plants &
Woods for Perches
Know
Your Poisonous and Non-Poisonous Plants
Boost
The Efficiency of Your Bird's Immune System
Top Ten Killers of
Birds
Troubleshooting Problems
Why Doesn't My Canary Sing?
Why Won't My Canary Sing?
Shipping Birds
MOLTING
The Molt: A Delicate Process
The
French Molt - article written by an avian vet discussing abnormal
molting caused by disease.
NUTRITION
Whole foods
vs. Synthetic (Pelleted) Diets
A Discussion of Pelleted Diets - a European perspective on the
American trend of feeding birds pelleted diets.
Complete Nutrition?
Vitamins -
discussion by nutritionist Alicia McWatters about vitamins and avian
nutrition.
Vitamin A
Deficiency
Avian Nutritional Diseases
Whole Grains for
Sprouting - nice webpage discussing individual whole grains and
their nutritional properties.
The World's Healthiest Foods -
a listing of 130 of the most nutrient dense foods. PLEASE NOTE: not all of
these foods (one example: avocadoes) should be fed to birds!
Sunflower
seeds
Spirulena - nutritionist Alicia McWatters' excellent article on
spirulena.
FEEDING
Soak seed recipes I
HOLISTIC/HERBAL
Apple
Cider Vinegar
Immune Function -
discussion of herbs and natural foods for treating illness and promoting
good health. Includes information about alfalfa, which my birds receive
regularly.
Avian Homeopathy
Home
Remedies - includes information about useful home treatments.
DISEASES & CONDITIONS
Common
Canary Diseases - A Quick Checklist
Recognizing Signs of Illness
First
Signs of Illness in an Aviary Bird
Normal Vs.
Abnormal Droppings
Signs of
Illness
How To Make A
Hospital Cage
To Treat or Not To Treat?
Feather Loss
Overgrown Beak
Canary Diseases
Viruses in Canaries - information provided by Vetafarm.
Avian
Gastric Yeast (AGY) - Megabacteria. Nice webpage featuring detailed
instructions on treating megabacteria (which is more properly called
Avian Gastric Yeast)
Megabacteria Treatment - article from Vetafarm about the treatment of
canaries with megabacterial infections.
Megabacteria
Toxicoses in Birds - what they eat CAN hurt them!
PESTS
Parasite Control
Mites
Northern Fowl Mites
BREEDING RELATED
Breeding,
guidelines for breeding by feather type, mating, nesting - this site
has absolutely beautiful photos of chicks and the entire nesting process.
10 Pertinent Points About
Breeding Canaries
Breeding Tips
Are You An Ethical Breeder?
Feeding for Breeding
Nestling Food
Recipes I
Photos of A Hen Laying An Egg
Watching Your Hens
Eggbinding
Reproductive
System of Male and Female Canaries
Incubating and Hatching Eggs - must-read resource published by the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service about egg fertility and candling, egg
handling, egg storage, and hatching problems.
Candling Eggs
Candling Eggs - site
offers great photos of candling eggs. Very nice discussion of handling
eggs, too.
Infertile Eggs
Egg Issues
Dead in shell embryos
- nice discussion of some of the causes of dead in shell.
Dead in Shell - article written by an avian vet
Reproductive Disorders of Hens - discusses parrots, but some
information is applicable to canaries as well.
Chick
Rescue - an article written by an avian vet about rescuing chicks
having hatching problems.
Why Birds Fail To Feed Chicks
Handfeeding
Canaries
Banding Babies
Sexing Young Canaries
CANARY SONG
What Lighting is Best
For Canary Song?
Song Canaries - a general
overview of canaries bred for song.
Song Canaries in the U.S.
