Sheather wrote:
If two birds can be kept together, it's better for them, but not all canaries will tolerate a companion. Males will often really beat up females if their reproductive cycle is not exactly linked and sometimes if they are. Aggression is tied to their mating instinct, and as caged canaries are often raised alone and may not get to develop natural social skills they are not always socially competent if later moved in with other birds. Usually this means they are overly aggressive with their mates or offspring.
Red factors are supposedly less aggressive among one another than the other canary types. I would not keep two American Singers of any gender permanently together.
Hi mate,
Personally I think you've perhaps been misled of saying that red factors are not normally as aggressive compared to other type canaries,
Of all the new colour/ red factor canaries that I've had over the years when breeding various mules etc aswell as other breeds of canaries they've all shown some pretty serious aggression,
In fairness most canary cocks will all show similar aggression regardless of what canary breeds they are,
I used to breed and exhibit Yorkshire canaries probably for over 20 years and used the red factors as feeders during all this time,
A lot of the time the factors used to try and bully me Yorkshire canaries which were literally twice the size of the factor canaries
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