MOULTING AND COLOUR FEEDING 



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birds are enabled to get the full benefit of all the warmth 

 which the sun gives, and that they are, at the same time, 

 protected from all draughts. Give them plenty of 

 fresh air, but avoid draughts. These are not conducive 

 to the well-being of canaries at any time, but during the 

 moult they are absolutely fatal. Birds very easily take 

 cold during the moult, and when they do the moult is 

 checked, sometimes completely, and when this happens 

 it is generally followed by illness and often death. Even 

 if death does not supervene on an illness contracted from 



Ordinary Moulting Cage Useful for all Breeds. 



a chill during the moulting season, the birds are never 

 really fit for the show bench, or for the breeding cage in 

 the following spring. It must never be forgotten that 

 during the moult the birds are not fully clothed, and are 

 therefore most susceptible to chills. Thus any utter 

 neglect or oversight at this time is apt to be paid for by 

 serious consequences later. Yet with proper care and 

 management no breeder need fear the moulting season. 



Generous Feeding Needful. 



Owing to the extra strain which the bird's constitutions 

 have to bear during the period of the moult, it naturally 

 follows that their food during that time should be of a 

 particularly generous character. When one speaks of 

 generous feeding, canary meu are apt to think immediately 



