Red Liprochrome Canaries and a baby.

Four Speckled Blue Eggs

Well our little hen has been busy this week .Yesterday she laid the fourth and last of her first clutch of eggs. The last egg, as expected was a bit more bluer than the others and seemed to be a little more pointed.I am not putting pictures of her yet because I don't want to frighten her from the nest.
Last year we had a little hen that laid five blue speckled eggs and the last one also was a bit more blue than the others.We did not turn the first egg a half turn like we were supposed to and ended up with only four babies. This picture is of last years family.
This male, Romeo as we called him eventually had to be separated from the family because he was always trying to mate.Romeo would be best for breeding two females at once.He was good about helping mama feed the babies thru the cage.(The picture above is of one of the babies from last year). We tried to remove the divider so that he could be in the cage to help full time but he started to do his "mating dance"and singing with great enthusiasm to one of the female babies.So back went the divider.
Well as thing progress with this years couple I will post more. Thanks for checking out this blog. Look for more updates and please leave your comments. connie

Red Liprochrome Canaries

The House of Flight

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The House of Flight.

It is spring in the bird room and all is aflutter. Our Red Liprocrome canaries are busy feeding each other and fusing with the nest in the back corner of their double breeder cage.To date the female a non-intensive has laid two eggs and we are expecting number three early tomorrow. Tomorrow should be egg number four but our girl skipped a day. Something I have read is not totally unusual for a first year clutch.

Although this is her first clutch she come from prize winning stock and a phenomenal breeder who is recognized as one of the Best Canary Breeders and a National Colorbred Judge.Her ancestors have won many ribbons, placks, and trophies over the past 25 or so years.