Canaries - A Complete and Practical Guide to the Breeding, Exhibiting and General Management of These Popular Birds

By C.A. House and Charles Arthur House

Book Overview

This vintage book contains a complete and practical guide to the breeding, exhibiting, and general management of canaries. This accessible and profusely illustrated guide includes all the information an existing or prospective canary keeper might need to know, and it is highly recommended for those with a practical interest in the subject. The chapters of this book include: "Canary Keeping as a Hobby", "Aviaries, Cages, and Fittings", "Breeding and General Management", "Moulting and Colour Feeding", "Diseases and their Treatment", "Seeds and their Uses", "Exhibiting", "The Belgian", "The Scots Fancy", etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443735272
• ISBN13: 9781443735278
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Read Country Book
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"