In the Bird Breeding there are some important considerations, for the beginners as for all the bird lovers.

• Study of Bird Breeding and how to star

tWhen we want to begin in this art, we should choose which is the most appropriate race for starting as what is the race we most like. Also we should not begin breeding the most complex races. The breeder should study what are the existing types of races, color races, type races, sing races. In each of this bird classes there are a lot of diferent type of birds and races. The breeder should start with a easy race, so he can, after some mistakes and learn some methods, introduce himself to other races. There are a lot of books about birds and ornithology, being the Internet also an excellent middle to obtain those knowledge. My piece of advice goes so that before beginning to breed we should study and investigate a little about this subject.

• Race Study

After the breeder have chosen the race that wants to breed and before beginning to buy some birds and spend some or a lot of money, the breeder should study in detail the Standard of the chosen race. It is that study that I triy to do with this Web Site, in way to give to the readers some information abou the Gloster main characteristics. So, which are then the first steps that should be taken:

• Study the defined Standard for the race

This Standard document defines the fundamental characteristics of the species and the main factors that we should look when we choose a bird. All the birds in a show or exposition should be evaluated based in these criteria;

• Observe the birds

After the study of the Standard, the breeder should begin to observe birds from other breeders. Try to know who are the top breeders, visit their bird room and talk with them. Don't became intimidate by those experience breeders, because as in everything in the life, and also in the canary breeding, there are good and bad people. People that just think in easy profit and they will only try to get money from you. This attitude from some people is lamentable and because of that some beginners abandoned the breeding. So try to compare the birds you observe in the bird room breeders to the standard that you studied. And a very important thing, learn to say NO, when breeders try to sell you birds you don't like.

• Selling and Buying birds

In the bird breeding we can spend a lot of money. The issue is how we want to spend that amount of money, buying good birds or crap brids !!! Observe the consistence of the bird lines in the bird rooms that you visit. A good breeder will have all the birds manifesting good characteristics. A breeder that has birds that fill the standard requisit and others that doesn't present those characteristics, will not be a top breeder.

I personally already spent a lot of money in bad breeders because I did not have the correct actitude and I meet bad people, even from people that are birds judges !!! But I learned with my mistakes and I had to start again from the begin !!!

• Facilities and Time Available

It is important that the breeder possesses appropriate facilities, I give some suggestions in an article in this Web Site. The breeder should only have the number of bird couples as the space he haves for the birds and cages, as the time he have to take care of them. It is not worthwhile to have many breeding couples and not to have an appropriate space from them as well as for the youngsters that will born. The breeder should dedicate everyday some time to observe and to feed the birds. It is preferable to dispose ½ hour a day for 6 or 7 couples than ½ hour a day for 20 couples. Certainty that you will have much better results with the first option than the second.

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