Please give your birds some natural perches, sunlight and the ability to perform natural behaviours like building and preening textures. These mass industrial set ups are seriously disturbing! Give these captive animals a good quality of life as a basic standard. You are responsible for their well being. Please offer them a life other than clinical standards for breeding. It's not ok. Its really disappointing.
These are standardized show cages, NOT the permanent enclosures in which the birds are kept and bred. Even domestic Canaries, Society Finches, and Budgerigars won't breed in show cages. All of these birds are trained to adapt to temporary confinement in show cages for months or years before a show. Otherwise they won't present themselves for judging acceptably. This is accomplished by attaching a show cage with the side door open to the birds' regular quarters, then gradually coaxing them inside with treats. After they are comfortable with this, they are accustomed to being confined inside for gradually increasing periods of time, then to being inside a show cage away from their home. The same procedure is used to train Zebra Doves and estrildid finches for bird shows in Southeast Asia, but tourists think the birds are kept and bred in these small show cages. Meanwhile, most of the Chickens raised for eggs and meat in their own countries are kept on tiny battery cages with wire floors, where they can't even scratch for food. Millions of cockerel chicks are destroyed each week in the UK and EU because they can't lay eggs, fight, and don't put on meat enough for Western consumers. I do not like seeing some of the birds at shows in captivity, especially insectivorous and nectivorous birds, and also dislike seeing Finch Mules (Canary X Finch), except Canary X Red Siskin crosses. But you ought to research beforehand what is involved in keeping, breeding, and raising these birds.
The naturalized display show cages are great. They really show the birds off at their best. 👍
Agreed!
Cos pieknego super pozdrawiam z poski 🐦👍
Good luck 🤞
BRAWO GRATULACJE :)
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Best of luck I would love a nice pair of London fancy I think they look beautiful
Used to go to the national every 1st of Jan at ingliston ..🐦
Is the breeding of emb. Cirlus and other buntings developed in Europe?
Fab birds
Agreed!
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Please give your birds some natural perches, sunlight and the ability to perform natural behaviours like building and preening textures. These mass industrial set ups are seriously disturbing! Give these captive animals a good quality of life as a basic standard. You are responsible for their well being. Please offer them a life other than clinical standards for breeding. It's not ok. Its really disappointing.
These are standardized show cages, NOT the permanent enclosures in which the birds are kept and bred. Even domestic Canaries, Society Finches, and Budgerigars won't breed in show cages.
All of these birds are trained to adapt to temporary confinement in show cages for months or years before a show. Otherwise they won't present themselves for judging acceptably. This is accomplished by attaching a show cage with the side door open to the birds' regular quarters, then gradually coaxing them inside with treats. After they are comfortable with this, they are accustomed to being confined inside for gradually increasing periods of time, then to being inside a show cage away from their home. The same procedure is used to train Zebra Doves and estrildid finches for bird shows in Southeast Asia, but tourists think the birds are kept and bred in these small show cages. Meanwhile, most of the Chickens raised for eggs and meat in their own countries are kept on tiny battery cages with wire floors, where they can't even scratch for food. Millions of cockerel chicks are destroyed each week in the UK and EU because they can't lay eggs, fight, and don't put on meat enough for Western consumers.
I do not like seeing some of the birds at shows in captivity, especially insectivorous and nectivorous birds, and also dislike seeing Finch Mules (Canary X Finch), except Canary X Red Siskin crosses. But you ought to research beforehand what is involved in keeping, breeding, and raising these birds.