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Identifier: rollercanaryitsb00guit (find matches)
Title: The roller canary : its breeding, rearing, and training
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Guitierrez, H. W
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London (England) : Poultry World Ltd.
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g the birds in the cabinets, leave the doorsopen at first to make sure they find their feeders anddrinkers, and let the doors remain open for at least twodays. On the third day close one door, the followingday pardy close the next door, and the succeeding dayclose all up. Be sure you have plenty of fresh air in the room inwhich you are going to keep them. Open the cabinets,and give fresh food and water the first thing every morn-ing, and leave the cabinets open for an hour. Open thedoors again at noon for half an hour, and then closeuntil evening. When you hear one or more of your young birdssinging in the darkness open the doors immediatelyand let them sing their song. Listen very criticallyfor any bad faults, and when they are finished closethe doors. The song box I use is a roomy one, with three holesat the back about ^ in. in diameter, and the doors areso constructed that when closed there is a space of aboutone-eighth of an inch at each side, allowing of the 5° THE ROLLER CANARY
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Singing or Training Cage and Cabinet. THE ROLLER CANARY 51 passage of air and light. With this and the apertures atthe back the bird is never in total darkness. Another design of cage is the shutter cage, combiningcage and box in one, being a box cage with two woodendoors to close in front after the pattern of the officialshow-cage. ARRANGING THE SONG BOXES The birds should be arranged in rows as closetogether as possible, and if there are many it is betterthat the tutor should face them, also in his song-box. As I do not use song boxes except for special pur-poses, as for a bird in a sitting room when he is generallyopen, or for a sick one, I describe what I consider to bea simpler system. The birds in their small wire cagesare ranged in racks, bookshelf fashion, with two curtainsof green casement material suspended in front, one aboutthree inches in front of the other to regulate the depth ofshade. If the room has Venetian blinds one curtain issufficient as a rule. The partition bet

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