Thank you Brother Mohammed for this really nice topic. As you mentioned there are a lot of things we have to make sure about to have a successful breeding season. Most of these things can be manageable and easy to fix and I think that everyone now is aware of them.

Again thank you, and please keep in touch with us regard any topics you might find of great benefit to us.

Additional to the problem No. 3: Lay eggs, not fertilized:

We make a difference between the non-frosted (intensive) or frosted (non-intensiv) bird.
The lipochrome pigment of the frosted birds stops just short of the margin of the web of the feather giving the bird a lightly powdered or frosted appearance. This kind of feather ist longer, too.
The non-frosted or intensive birds don’t have the margins. The feather ist a little bit smaller.
The different of the types you can see and touch with your finger:
Open the wings, feel the feather on the belly.
The best choice for good results are frosted x non-frosted.

Sometimes the non-frosted birds have very longer feather and the sperm can’t passed.
Specially when you pairing up two birds non-intensiv.

Before I pairing up the birds, I cut around the genitals the feather. It is an usually process .
But the small feathers on the male penis I never cut.

Every breeder of the body type canaries must do this. Over many generation this birds are mated non-intensiv x non-intensiv.
If you don’t do it, you will get not good results.


Additional to the problem No. 7-8

During the last 15 years many breeders – include myself – got problem of a mysterious disease in their farms: The Black Spot.
Some breeder lost more than 90 % of their chicks.
Symptom of this disease: Death in the egg, chicks cannot get out of the egg or weak or the death of the chicks in the nest. Almost of chick died in the first 5 days.

All of this chicks died with a black spot. – Not only canaries, also Gouldian Finches and Zebrafinches.

The German Breeder Association gave a veterinary surgeon the task of controlling about the disease, but until today nobody know the reason of the Black Spot.

What you or other breeders know about this ?

Brother Abu Suhaib Thank you

God willing, I will be with you

I think you talked about the black spot disease in the Arabic forum as a translation for what you read about it ?

Thank you brother Werner for the clarification beautiful

Thank you Mr. Werner for those information and recommendations. For us cutting the feather around the genitalia is a way that we follow as a solution for this problem for the reason you mentioned.

For the black spot disease, yes it is a serious problem and few friends faced it with baby chicks, it has a high mortality rate for chicks. And what I know about this diseases: It is a viral infection with a single stranded DNA virus known as circovirus. The black spot is always at the right side and it is due to galblader enlargement.The canary circovirus, known as CaCV is transmitted by "carrier" birds . It is highly contagious disease and the virus is too difficult to kill even with disinfectants and can survive on surfaces for up to six months. Because it is a viral disease no treatment is effective, so the only thing to do is to avoid breeding pairs that had this problem before and take them out from your aviary. No treatment yet, but they are still working on a vaccine for this disease.



So happy to see you back, and looking for more

Thank you brother Mohammed, Yes I put a topic in the Arabic forum/ A Translation taking about this kind of disease, and I already talked about it answering Mr. Werner question.

Many thanks, and good to see you around

Hey Abu Aljoud, our handsome member. Good to see you back with your nice participation. Your suggestion to brother Mohammed is so good. Yes if it is possible for you brother Mohammed to put each subtopic as a main topic and give more explanations that would be good, and sure, that depends on your time, no rush.

Abu Aljoud, The author of this topic recommended culling the parents that produce chicks with black spot as a solution for this problem. So, I think yes it is a heritable disease and transmitted from parents to to chicks if it is not heritable, for sure the parents have a role in transmitting it to chicks and in either way, cull the parents.

Best wishes.