Canary Song/Color
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ivy hill
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Canary Song/Color
Does anyone know if the canary song is sex linked? or if color is sex linked? where did the red gene come from in red factors?
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Gretchen
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dan78
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Re: Canary Song/Color
I don't quite understand what you mean about is the song sex linked? What I know is that 99.9% of males will sing and the song will vary from ok to outstanding while in hens its more like 0.01% will have a song that will be as good as a male. When I have bred singing canaries in the past the male is major contributing factor to the youngs song but if you pair this male up to a female that came from a background where her father was an outstanding singer this will help with getting youngs are of good quality singer. Hope this helped.
Colouration being sex linked well yes this holds true with most colours Shie being the first to come to mind. Varigated won't go sex linked.
How did the colour red come into canaries, many years ago the canary was bred to a finch called the black hooded red siskin, they were cross bred to produce a red line of canary. What helped this cross bred and the red canaries today was that this hybrid was fertile so crossing back to a canary. The colour isn't as string as the red siskins red but has given great shades of red orange through to apricots.
Colouration being sex linked well yes this holds true with most colours Shie being the first to come to mind. Varigated won't go sex linked.
How did the colour red come into canaries, many years ago the canary was bred to a finch called the black hooded red siskin, they were cross bred to produce a red line of canary. What helped this cross bred and the red canaries today was that this hybrid was fertile so crossing back to a canary. The colour isn't as string as the red siskins red but has given great shades of red orange through to apricots.