To enter the fascinating grounds of color canary breeding means to understand what to do and when to do it. Basic concepts of genetics are necessary to really succeed in this ancestral hobby. The management of mating, the identification of genetic formulas to handle breeding procedures, and finally get full control of the results to measure success and mistakes are all necessary as well.
This is exactly what this book is all about: offering the knowledge in simple and firm steps and giving the reader breeding procedures in a theoretical basis to perform modern color canary breeding, including the most recent mutations.
Author(s): Octavio Perez-Beato
Publisher: RoseDog Books
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 95
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts on Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2: Mating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 3: Pigments and Feathers in the Canary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 4: The Dominant White and the Recessive White Canary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 5: The Yellow and the Lemon-Yellow Canary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 6: The Red Factor Canary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 7: The Green and the Brown Canary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 8: The Dilution Factor: the Agate and the Isabelle Canary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 9: The Pastel Canary: the super dilution factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 10: The Opal Canary: the extra dilution factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 11: The Ivory Factor: dilute lipochromes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 12: The Pied Canary Genetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 13: New Mutations. The Incredible Eighties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 14: Genetic Possibilities of a True Black Canary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 15: Obtaining Varieties through Simple Pairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 16: Concomitant Factors in Color Canaries: other mutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter 17: The Nomenclature of Color Canaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Chapter 18: Quantitative Canary Breeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
