Canaries Month by Month: MAY / JUNE

MY BIRDROOM generally favours a later start to the canary breeding season, particularly as I try to emulate nature in terms of natural daylight and heat. I have known for some time that birds hatched before the middle of June will generally be moulted out ready for the October shows, so an early start has never been of major importance to me.

Nevertheless, some of my birds were ready earlier than I had planned and so, inevitably, I had little option but to let them start. Holding birds back tends to mean hens will lay eggs without cock birds being present, so at that point there