Canaries Month by Month: JULY
ON JUNE 1, as we officially welcomed in the British summer, my young bird total for the year crept past the 70 mark. Yorkshire canaries are generally later to go to nest than the smaller, more active breeds of canary, but this year I hadn’t told my birds that, and things had gone well.
It is important to have a good start to the breeding season, because it is the earlier-bred canaries which will make the show bench in October, when the UK show season starts. My rule of thumb is that birds hatched by June 16 each year stand a good chance of being through their moult by the time the YCC show weekend
