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Canaries on the way; Updated with pics now
Topic Started: Feb 23 2009, 09:57 PM (814 Views)
cspags
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CBL what are the canary personalities like. I know you can probably tame them, but for us non bird whisperers could we tame a canary. They certainly are incredibly beautiful.
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Dio
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Fantastic!! Hope all goes smoothly (c:
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Cathy, they are delicate and very sweet natured. My girls are my fav. When I have had to handle the birds for illness, they seem to tame down sooooooooo fast. They dont run from my hand and they allow me to pic them up and kiss them or handle them without biting or even attempting to bite like a budgie does. They are very alert curious birds. I love them.

On another note, bad news for the eggs. Because the hens are all jockying for brooding time, they seem to be puncturing holes in the clear eggs. AND now the other day I found one full egg almost full term cracked with the egg stuck to the nesting material. So this tells me the fluids leaked out and attached the egg to the nesting material. The chick was dead and due to hatch any day. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooo bummed, the other seems to DIS as well. So I will let the girls sit a bit longer and remove everything and give them a rest. In the future, I would not take the breeders advice that communal nesting is ok. Too many brood changes and disturbance of the sitting hen.

I actually have a pic of the baby in the egg with the yolk still attached. Sad to see tho.

Also, I had removed 4 hens into another cage to allow mamma to sit quietly and one of the norwich was biting the fifes toe and removed the nail and caused a ton of bleeding. Luckily before I left the house, I checked on the birds and found sooooooooooooooooo much blood, I thought for sure the fife would die. I gave her sugar water, cleaned the wound and gave her her own cage.

Two days later I noticed her on the bottom of the cage, DIRE straights now!! She didnt look good, she was fine in the morn, fine in the aft, fine early eve, then BOOM, no notice on the floor looking VERY ILL. I immediatly removed her to the bathroom hospital cage, gave her more sugar water, she barely could keep her eyes open. Tail was pumping. She seemed quite weak. i dont think she was eating much on her own. All she wanted to do was sit on the nest of eggs. Long story short, I injected her with baytril, and then a few hours later, ANOTHER injection, I call this a "loading dose"", this gives ample meds into the blood to jumpstart the effects of any infection and then normal dose the next 5 to 7 days. I am happy to report, she looked MUCH better this morn, ate on her own after I gave sugar water AND a weak hand feed formula. She ate millet, seed and had a few baths, she preened and stretched and was up on her feet and perching on ONE foot when resting. I am optimistic she will have a full recovery. My lesson her is, they go down SUPER quick and if not aggresively treated will die EVEN quicker. Will post pics when she is 100% :) P.S. I buy the 1cc insulin needles that are SHORT only about 1.2 inch long or so. VERY effective for injecting such a small bird :)
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CBL you can work miracles so I know this little one will pull through. How scary though. I always spend time looking at the canaries now at the pet store, they truly are gorgeous. I just have never seen one tamed. I am sure if you got one young and it was only one bird it could be tamed. Sorry to hear about your troubles with the eggs, now you know for the future. Poor things sitting on the eggs, it is so sad. Keeping my fingers crossed. PS how are the dogs doing
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what a shame about the eggs , see no bird ever wants to leave you CBL , I hope she continues to get better .
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Well, so far my canary is holding stable. She likes her greens but I think for sure she has some type of gut infection, like ecoli. So the baytril will take care of that. Im glad Im injecting tho, as I think that oral or by water being less accurate, she would have been dead already. She keeps checking her toe, so I know its sore.
I will give her more medicam today. Good anti inflammatory.

Here is the pic of the poor bub I lost, close to full term. Very sad. So close to being hatched. :( Thats the part I dread. I would rather an infertile egg that DIS. :(

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How heartbreaking for the bub to be so close. CBL my heart goes out to you
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Oh, I know, :(, I can see his little eggtooth and his wet little feathers on the head, and his big eye. Probably a norwich?? Who knows, it just sucks. I'm mad at myself for listening to the breeder telling me, its ok to leave all the hens together. I found that as soon as I saw them fighting over the nests that they needed to be separated. 4 of them wanted to lay and sit at the same time, in FACT, I have pics of them stacked two high on the nest, one laying either right on top of the other, or beside, its rather cute, but I think too much jocking for position damaged the eggs. :(
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poor little one , I would think you are right , I know when the girls shared the nest it often ended up with dis eggs due to the extra heat .
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Ya, this particular hen did not sit with any others, and this round I removed all but one tiny gloster hen who is sitting on her own clear eggs next door. So all went well so far.

Here is a pic of them at 9 and 10 days old respectively. Eyes opened yesterday.

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