Shackleton's Yorkshire Canary - Its Breeding and Management

This vintage book contains a detailed and comprehensive guide to the Yorkshire Canary, with information on breeding, feeding, housing, and general management. This thorough and accessible guide contains all the information a canary keeper needs to know, and it is highly recommended for prospective and existing owners. The chapters of this book include: 'Introduction', 'The Question of Length', 'What Kind of Feather Should a Yorkshire Possess', 'Housing the Stock', 'Pairing and Breeding', 'How to Form a Strain', 'Laying the Foundation', 'The Selection of Stock', 'Colour and How to Obtain It', 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, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.