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Canaries
My dad is getting some canaries and he is going to
breed them. They are going to live outside in an aviary or whatever it's called and my dad said I could have a baby if I wanted. I was wondering what can I do with it haha. Can they do tricks? Can you pet them? Can you feed them
treats? Do they fly around? Are they high maintence? If anyone really knows anything about birds in general
it would be really helpful.
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Like any wild animal canaries are hard to tame. It took hundreds of years before dogs were fully domesticated. Canaries can be hand-tamed.. meaning they will let you feed them from your hands.. eventually. They must have a lot of cage space and get comfortable, before this is attempted.
"Fit a small seed cup into the canary's cage. Use this cup to feed the bird a small quantity treat seeds' each day. Niger and linseed are two great favourites of canaries.Their greatest favourite are hemp seeds, which most canaries cannot resist. They are usually included as part of the standard canary seed mix, and can also be purchased separately. As the bird begins to become accustomed to you, start to feed it a little hemp.
Put the hemp seeds into the treat cup, a few each day. Your canary will soon learn to expect them. After a while, instead of putting the hemp seeds into the cup, use the lug of the cup as a little platform on which to place them, one at a time, for the bird to pick up. As your canary picks up one seed and cracks it open, place the next one ready for it to take. This way, the bird will become accustomed to your hand, associating it with its favourite seeds, but all the time feeling the safety of the cage bars between itself and you.
The next stage of training/taming is to give the hemp seeds on alternate days only. Now try resting one finger against the seed cup, close to the hemp seed. The bird will be eager to pick up the seed, and may take it without any hesitation, regardless of your finger; but if it does hesitate, take your finger away. Offer the hemp seeds in the normal way for another day or so and then try again resting your finger against the seed cup. Your canary will soon gain enough confidence to pick up the seeds. Once it has been doing this for a while, instead of putting the seeds down for the bird to pick up, offer them between the bars in your thumb and forefinger. Again, the canary may hesitate, but if you have withheld the hemp for a day or two it will be eager to take the seeds from you.
Once your canary has accepted to take its seeds directly from your fingers (still with the safety of the bars between it and you), continue to offer the hemp in this manner. Now it won't be long before the bird signifies one day, when you put your hand inside its cage, that it wants to play! As the bird stands up, beak open and flexing its wings, you will know that you have succeeded in hand-taming your bird."
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There you go! Hope it helped.
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