Canaries - A Complete and Practical Guide to the Breeding, Exhibiting and General Management of These Popular Birds

C. A. House

• Publisher: Read Country Book
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446546529
• Print ISBN:
  9781406796001
  9781443735278

This vintage book contains a complete and practical guide to the breeding, exhibiting, and general management of canaries. This accessible and profusely illustrated guide includes all the information an existing or prospective canary keeper might need to know, and it is highly recommended for those with a practical interest in the subject. The chapters of this book include: "Canary Keeping as a Hobby", "Aviaries, Cages, and Fittings", "Breeding and General Management", "Moulting and Colour Feeding", "Diseases and their Treatment", "Seeds and their Uses", "Exhibiting", "The Belgian", "The Scots Fancy", etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• I. Canary Keeping as a Hobby
• II. Aviaries, Cages and Fittings
• III. Breeding and General Management
• IV. Moulting and Colour Feeding
• V. Diseases and their Treatment
• VI. Seeds and their Uses
• VII. Exhibiting
• VIII. The Belgian
• IX. The Scots Fancy
• X. The Yorkshire
• XI. The Lancashire
• XII. The Dutch Frill
• XIII. The Crested Norwich
• XIV. The Norwich Plainhead
• XV. The Lizard
• XVI. The Cinnamon
• XVII. The Border Fancy
• XVIII. The London Fancy
• XIX. The Roller Canary
• XX. Lesser-Known Varieties
• Index