Lizard Canaries are lovely birds :)

I was really happy to get 4x 1st places in the novice section.

Hi Phil, great to have you on board, 2024 has gone well, I'm already looking forward to 2025, I'm with Bob on Sunday so I'll send best wishes from you.

Many thanks :)

Looking forward to seeing what we get from them next year :)

Your very welcome, hopefully we're getting people into Lizards :)

Thankyou, it's a great part of the year for me :)

Cheers Kevin, well done to your blues too, clean sweep :)

Thankyou Mike, it's nice to see the birds being appreciated in the shows

Thankyou Eric, it's good to see other keepers birds to compare the qualities.

Cheers :) Everyday is a learning day :)

Cheers thankyou, I'll pop a few more photo's on other episodes as and when :) We have beautiful wildlife in the UK.

I have once, and they do come out lovely as pets for people, but now I'm concentrating on getting better birds for showing.

Thankyou, it's a journey for sure :)

Hi, I just use old phones, nothing special :)

Thankyou very much :)

She has such lovely markings that I haven't managed to get images of yet, she looks better in the flesh than on video.

I should get a job on QVC :) They're really good for keeping the floor clean etc.

Your very welcome, I really appreciate the sharing :)

Thankyou Eric, we had very few birds in the garden until we planted the olive tree, now it's a busy place :) Also the lizards are coming through their moult nicely, I have 2 or 3 that are complete, and several more that should be ready for Stafford :)

Thankyou Mike, I'm loving watching yours feeding, it's great to see breeding at different stages around the world, always an interest somewhere..

Many thanks, I just have to see how the birds come through the moult, I have 1 more box to paint :)

Many thanks :)

Many thanks Mike :)

She only whizzes through them, hopefully :)

Thankyou for the comments, it's the only job I find that's tedious :)

Me too 😂😂 ​@@olivebranchbirds

Thankyou, birds are healthy enough, just need the moult to go well :)

Cheers Mike, I'll have to look further to see if I can find photos of the previous shed and garden, it was on a slope and the garden needed levelling first, it felt really good when it was completed.

Cheers, thankyou for the comments, having others to lean on for knowledge is paramount to furthering progress in the hobby, It's nice to delve deeper into the understanding of Lizards in their various forms, I'm love it more each season.

Every days a learning day :)

Cheers for the comments, sorry for late comment, I'm having a nightmare with youtube at the moment, I'm loving the Glosters, I bred them many years ago, lovely temperament.

@@olivebranchbirds l love my Glosters keep up the good work 👏

Thank you! Cheers!

Hi Danny, I have pencilled in EALCA (East Anglian Lizard canary association) which is a brilliant show for Lizards, also I hope to attend 2x general bird shows local to me, Stamford CBS & Grantham CBS. I have just joined the Southern Lizard canary club so will attend that one, I may also join and attend the LCA show which I believe is in Northamptonshire.

Cheers Eric, originally I would have the quail outside to clear up bits around the aviary floor, but this one hates the outside so I had to sacrifice a double breeder so she gets exercise, I do tend to pop canaries in with her when I'm moving birds around so the cage has a double use.

It's some species of Polygonum.

Hi, thankyou for the question, I use polygonum leaves, I give the birds 2x leaves per day.

There's a bit more info on polygonum in episode 20 which should help.

I may need to invest, onwards and upwards :)

One of the benefits of videoing the journey, the birds never read my script for the breeding season :)

I'll try to grow hair Mike so they think it's carpet :)

Hi Sam, cheers for the comment, the chicks get enough vitamins, minerals, protein etc from the mix, as for quantity they tend to let me know when they're getting full, they store a lot of the food in their crop and slowly digest the food over time, it's as important to make sure the crop is empty before the next feed in order the chicks don't store food for too long and incite digestive issues from stale food. It takes longer to wean the hand reared birds, I am currently trying to get them to eat for themselves :)

Thankyou :)

Thankyou for the comment :)

Thank you! Cheers!

Many thanks Mike, sorry for the late reply, hope you had a great father's day too, how are those birds doing down under? they looked superb on your last episode.

Cheers, it was a tip I picked up on my first day collecting my Lizards 4 years ago, I have 2x types of Polygonum, one has small leaves and does not like my garden, the other one, 'Albertii' , was a variety mentioned in an old Belgian publication I read which really took well.

Thankyou Eric, it's quite a journey each season, but very enjoyable and rewarding :)

That's great to hear, how many and what type are you keeping?

@@olivebranchbirds I keep lizard canaries too and satinets yellow and this year I got till now about 30 chicks 🐣 in all. Thanks. 👍👍🐣🐣🇲🇹🇲🇹

Thankyou very much :) It will be nice to see the change once they have moulted in a few weeks.

Hi and thanks for the question, I have started adding the red to egg food & water but it's a relatively weak mix (50% ) which I hope will help give them a base colour, I started when I thought some of the chick's were dropping the odd feather and decided to feed it to all chick's at the moment, however when the next set of chick's hatch they won't be colour fed at all, this let's me have more options in competition later in the year.

Thanks 👍

Cheers thank you, I would have liked more chicks but as long as they're healthy and look good, I'm happy :)