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Canaries Month by Month: SEPTEMBER

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STILL, feathers everywhere in my birdroom, although the colour of the moulting birds is now coming through well, and I am beginning to see the wood through the trees.

The majority of my Yorkshires this year have been bred from just four cock birds, with my other retained cocks contributing a mere handful of offspring between them. That was a planned situation, and I am happy that my best cock bird has contributed about 30 or so young birds into my

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