Mating not completely.

canary3000 · Post by **canary3000** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 7:33 pm

I've been observing my fife canaries for several hours. She has a nest and is always fixing it up. The male mounted her sort of. Just hopped on her backside. No contact to pass sperm in to her vent. I hope he can do better than that!! I also noticed that when i approach a boy, they go through that motions of mating the hen, if to tell me, "I'm mating her not you." Sorry sentence structuring is bad today.

Sheather · Post by **Sheather** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:21 am

Mine does the same, hoped this year would be better, but nope. He still just hits her back. I think some are just bad at it.

Flight Feathers · Post by **Flight Feathers** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:57 pm

Sheather wrote: Mine does the same, hoped this year would be better, but nope. He still just hits her back. I think some are just bad at it.

That’s what my canaries did too.... only the eggs hatched.

Sheather · Post by **Sheather** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:38 pm

Then there must have been a proper contact at some point, because hitting the back doesn't fertilize anything!

Flight Feathers · Post by **Flight Feathers** » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:13 pm

Sheather wrote: Then there must have been a proper contact at some point, because hitting the back doesn't fertilize anything!

Yes must have been. I obviously just didn’t see it!

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