Things You'll Need
- Breeding cage with solid and metal dividers
Instructions
Feed your canaries food that provides adequate nutrition for mating and nesting canaries. Petcraft.com recommends giving the canaries access to vitamin-enriched seed at all times, and a small dish of nestling food once a day. In addition, the canaries should receive a small piece of fruit or vegetable, grit and a cuttlebone daily.
Place a male and a female yellow canary in a breeding cage that has a solid divider, in addition to a metal divider. Keep both dividers down and place your female on one side and male on the other, suggests the canary breeding information website petcraft.com.
Observe your female canary and note if she is building her nest. If she is, remove the solid divider, leaving the metal divider in place.
Watch your canaries to see if they are ̶0;kissing,̶1; or touching their beaks to each other. Once they are, lift the dividers and allow them to interact. When the female is ready, she will crouch down and mating will likely begin, according to petcraft.com. Observe your canaries for any lovers' quarrels; if you notice them fighting, separate them immediately.