Breeding fife's for
show
First year: 1
buff cock & 2 yellow cocks, 2 yellow hens & 5 buff hens,
Yellow cock 1 2
buff hen’s pair 1 & 2
Use cock 1 with 3
hens
Yellow cock 1 1
buff hen pair 3
Buff cock 2
1 yellow hen pair 4
Use cock 2 with 2
hens
Buff cock 2
1 yellow hen pair 5
Yellow cock 3 1
buff hen pair 6
Use cock 3 with 2
hens
Yellow cock 3 1
buff hen pair 7
Second Year
3 Buff cock's 2
yellow cock's
5 Yellow hens 2
buff hens
Buff cock 1
2 yellow hen’s pair 1 & 2
Yellow cock
2 1 buff hen pair 3
Buff cock
3 1 yellow hen pair 4
Yellow cock
4 1 buff hen pair 5
Buff cock 5
2 yellow hen
pair 6 & 7
Two new cocks, 1
yellow 1 buff, from this years breeding, each year you alternate the
cocks yellow or buff at the bottom of the line.
First year’s ring’s each line as it's
own colour
1 to 50 numbered Black.
1 to 50 numbered Mauve
1 to 50 numbered
Dark Blue. 1 to 50 numbered Green
Black Line
Cock 1 is out
Cock 2 goes to
1
Cock 3 goes to 2
Cock 4 goes to 3
Cock 5 goes to 4
New cock 5 best young buff or yellow cock
overall from black line
Cock 1
Has the 1st pick of all the hens from pairs
1 2 4 5 6 7
Cock 2 Has the
2nd pick of all the hens from pairs 1 2 3 5
Cock 3
Has the pick of the hens from pairs 5 6 only.
This pairing makes the line cock's
breed, with hens from the out crossers young.
Cock 4 Has the 3rd pick of all the hens from
pairs 1 2 3 4
Cock 5 Has the two
yellow hens from the (year before) top of blue line pairs 1 & 2
Cocks 1 to 5 can pick the hens from the
year before if the young are very good.
At start of breeding all birds for black
line, have numbered rings -1 to 12
Cocks have
1 to 5
Hens have 6
to 12
Paul has 2 line's in his
shed. Green, Blue. I have Black, Mauve.
We
have 4 line's 2 in each shed, we bring a out -cross in to each line from
the top of last years pairings. 1st year black line, 2nd year blue line,
3rd year pink line, 4th year green line.
The Standard for the fife canary
Size
Not
to exceed 4 1/4
inches (108mm)
Colour
Rich,
Soft,& pure, as level in tint as
possible throughout, but extreme
depth of hardness such as
colour
feeding ,makes you
DEBARRED.
Scale of Points
Head
10
Body
10
Wings
10
Legs
5
Plumage
10
Tail
10
Position
& Carriage 10
Colour
10
Heath
10
Size
25
Total
100
Lags
Of medium length,
showing a little thigh.
Chest
Rounded, but neither
heavy nor prominent
Position &
Carriage
semi-erect, standing at an
angle of 60 degrees. gay, jaunty with full poise
of head.
Tail
Close packed & narrow, being
nicely rounded & filled in at the root.
Wings
Compact & carried close to the body, meeting at the
tips, just below the root of the tail.
Body
Well filled & nicely rounded running
in almost a straight line from the gentle rise over the
shoulders to the point of the tall.
Plumage
Close, firm. fine in
quality
Head
Small round & neat beak
fine, eyes central to roundness of body.
A Buff Green Cock drawing By Andy Mcewan
Scotland
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