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I just love this fellow

I will be posting more of my new red factors once I get my camera straightened out

I had no idea canaries were crester He's adorable!

Every time I see those little Beatle copycats at the show, I almost end up bringing one home

Too cute! This just moved to the top of my wishlist!

Glosters arent a colour fed variety.
Red factors arent a crested variety.
I take it this is a crossbred hybrid of a gloster x red factor coulur canary?

Canaries like these have been breed over the years, something like the stafford canary. Here is a link explaining their ancestory http://www.staffordcanary.co.uk/history.htm

Glosters arent a colour fed variety.
Red factors arent a crested variety.

Was thinking the same thing, interesting looking bird though.

hi
if anything it looks more like a stafford to me,...but like you i am erring on to the coloufed gloster canary side


ken

These birds are also called Staffords. They are results from a cross of red factor and glousters. The bird pictured is several generations from the F1 crosses. The red factor cross has been recognized since the 80's and under the name Stafford and the US founded a club in 1993

http://www.staffords-usa.com/.

here are some other pictures:
http://joescanaries.com/stafford_canaries.php

Ohhhhh now I see, I've heard of Staffords just haven't heard them called red factor Glosters before.

here are some more pics of the "Stafford Pair" pair
Some old time breeders me still call them RFglosters or red crested.
These should be paired crest to non crest just like glosters.

Just adorable!!

hi
its strange but,we would call those variagated gloster canaries in this country


ken

They are variegated

hi
some confusion there i think!i thought someone said they where staffords and i was given to understand that all staffords where colour fed


ken

Ken,
Not sure where the confusion is.... maybe because Robin stated that Gloster's are not a colorfed canary? Her statement was the 5th one down in this post.

To clarify, breeders wanted a creasted red bird so they set about to creat one. They took glosters and red factor canries and crossed them until they got the conformation/color that was desired. They then set a standard for the breed and deided to call it the Stafford.

There was a bird in Europe already called the Deutche Koife. This was a red bird with a semi crest. Breeders worked to get the crest improved and was recognized once perfected as the Stafford in 1987 and was cosider a new breed of canary in Great Britain.
They then became quite popular and spread all over the globe.

Some breeders still do the origional crossings of red factors to glosters. Though these I call red crested birds or red factor glosters hybrids because that's what they are They are fertile though and not like mules of different species.