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If someone want to buy a normal canary (not show quality or prize winner) how much the average price would be for a male: Waterslager, American singer, Timbrados?

Zebra

This depends on where you live, and how many Canaries (and breeders) are around your area.

I've seen Canaries, advertised on kijiji for fairly reasonable prices. Prices can range from $30.00, up to over $100.00, depending on age, gender, etc.

I bought my boy Luciano, for $100, over two years ago, from a breeder.

Pet Shops, usually sell males for over a hundred bucks. Females, are usually cheaper.

So which of the above types is more or less pricy? for example Green back gouldians are usually cheaper then yellow or blue backs.

Zebra

If we're talking Gouldians:

Breeder's prices:

Green back normals → $75.00-$85.00
Blue backs→$140.00 and up

Pet Shop prices:

Green back normals→ $140.00 and up
Blue backs (usually not seen in stores) → $180.00 and up

This (by the way) is in Canadian currency.

I just used gouldians as an example, what I want to know is the canary type prices. which one is more or less expensive and how much average price in the USA, the Waterslager, American singer or the Timbrados?

Zebra

Sorry, can't help you with US prices

Zebra, if you buy from a breeder in the Minnesota / Wisconsin USA area, prices for kitchen canary males are $50 to $65. I bought a Hartz male this fall for $65.

'Kitchen' canaries are not a breed, just regular canaries without a pedigree. Some sing just as well as the named breeds.

Pet store prices are double what I mention above.

Zebra

Pet Smart sells the American Singer variety for about $165. They have two at my local store

Wow, those are some mind blowing prices! Here in Mexico you can get really beautiful canaries for 20USD and they sing beautifully!!

Mexicancanary wrote: Wow, those are some mind blowing prices! Here in Mexico you can get really beautiful canaries for 20USD and they sing beautifully!!

here its 1/2 that...and cause its breeding time. non breeding you can get them at roughly 5usd as its almost equivalent 1:1 to the euro. will soon post one of my kitchen ones singing he's great

I recently bought American Singers from a bird business [not a chain pet store] @ $50 and Waterslagers from a home breeder @ $60.

I paid $40 for my previous mixed breed crested hen from a hobby breeder, and $75 for my American Singer, Sebastian, from a registered breeder (he's closed-banded and song-trained). My local store would have charged me $130 for an unsexed mixed breed canary or $275 for a male Timbrado. If I wanted a male red factor, he'd run about $300 there.

So it seems that the canary type doesn't affect the price, I thought it will be like blue back gouldian finch always more expensive than normal green back no matter where you get them from.
I am heading tomorrow to a breeder to get 1 male and 1 female waterslagers. he also has other types and the prices are from $45 to $75 each.

Zebra wrote: So it seems that the canary type doesn't affect the price, I thought it will be like blue back gouldian finch always more expensive than normal green back no matter where you get them from.
I am heading tomorrow to a breeder to get 1 male and 1 female waterslagers. he also has other types and the prices are from $45 to $75 each.

I think the Canary type and color does affect the price but whether you buy it directly from the breeder or from a store, affects the price even more. So, in that respect, their pricing is similar to Gouldians (i.e. double the price in stores). And a Red Factor will probably usually cost more than a yellow... but maybe not as consistently as a Green-back vs. Blue-back Gouldian.

I paid $40 for this unbanded American Singer (below) at a bird show in Baltimore, Maryland. I feel he was cheaper because he was sold at a show and he is unbanded. I suspect that a lot of miscellaneous "regular looking" canaries in the U.S. get called American Singers, as a sort of catch-all for Canaries not otherwise anything else... but I've read that for a Canary to be an "official" American Singer it needs to be banded with an American Singer Club band.



p.s. If you get male and female Waterslagers from the same breeder, make sure they are unrelated if you plan to breed them!

I found a Female Canary for sale with CHICKS (Doesn't seem like a good idea to sell her in a noisy market, doesn't it) for sale for R$100/$25! She was feeding them and stuff and I only asked if the clerk had hand-feeding formula just in case one of my finches abandoned their chicks...