So Green Singer hens can sing!

[BigBear0007]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696B5CtD ... ata_player

I played this video to my Green Singers and they went crazy!
The male sang and then the hen started to sing also!
She then started to squat and wanted to be mounted!
Her song isn't as long as the male, but still very nice.
I can now see how people would they have two males!
If she didn't squat for the male and then beg to be fed,
I would have thought I had two males!

[DanteD716]

well now if you want them to mate just play it.

[PrettyBird]

my Lucy sings ALL the time.
I dont have a mate for her just yet. By the end of this month I should though.

I just played that video, and Lucy just went crazy!!! Wow! she was singing away like crazy and jumping around the whole aviary. Poor girl, now I wish I had her husband for her sooner lol

Im gonna save that video thanks for sharing

[finchmix22]

Cool. I played the video for my 8 GS and the only ones who responded were the two adult males. The adult hens chirped a few times, but the four juveniles just stared into space. I'll try it again tomorrow. They may be ready for bed now.

[Sally]

I just played that video--very nice. Everything I have read, though, says that only male Green Singers sing. I only saw males in that video.

I have Gray Singers, a close relative, and only males sing with the Grays. In fact, there is no visual difference between sexes, so the only way you can sex them, besides DNA, is that males sing, hens lay eggs. My first pair were both so quiet, I thought I had two hens. I finally put them in separate cages, in separate rooms. The next morning, the male started singing, and I found an egg in the hen's cage--thank goodness, a male/female pair!

The best singer I have ever owned was a Green Singer/canary hybrid. He was bigger than the Green Singers, and he could belt it out with the best of them. His song would go on so long, it was unbelievable. He was so funny, if I started to whistle the 1812 Overture, he would start singing, and as long as I whistled, he tried to drown me out! I guess I was pretty awful. Unfortunately, he was so mean he killed every cage mate he ever had, he wanted company so badly but then would attack them. It was still a sad day when I found him dead on the bottom of his cage.

[kenny]

hi
maybe your males where singing because they where showing that there where other males present and telling the video birds that there where males already there so stay away! with regard to the grey singers i used to find thier song somewhat more delicate and better sounding than the greens,it was just unfortunate that they where impossible to sex i bought 2 pairs once and 3 of them were females but i enjoyed the one male singing in the aviary


ken

[BigBear0007]

I thought they were two males, but the hen kept crouching on the perch waiting to be mounted!
Another male wouldn't do that?
Also I cought the hen and blew on the vent, and it's swollen, she wants to breed, but maybe my male isn't quite ready yet.

[BigBear0007]

Here is a few pictures of my pair.



Pair of Green Singers



Hen

[kenny]

hi big bear
nice pics of lovely birds

ken

[BigBear0007]

hi big bear
nice pics of lovely birds

ken

Thank you Kenny!

The hen is especially nice and full.
She is two years old, the cock is only a year old.
He needs to fill out a little more.

[kenny]

hi
as long as thye are flying abour with no problems i wouldnt worry about the weight of them,just periodically feel either side of thier keel to make sure there is plenty of meat on either side you will see it as a kind of yellow colour and thats how you can tell if a bird is losing weight through illness as they dont always show it until it is to late

ken