Canary German Roller Health Information

German Roller Canaries who are kept about 72 degrees Fahrenheit constantly will go into soft molts. The best time to purchase a Roller Canary is November, as by this time the birds will have finished their summer molts and you will have a good idea of the bird's appearance.

As with other canaries, they are generally not compatible with other birds - they are territorial and usually will require their own cages.

Breeding
German Roller Canaries usually breed in late March. In order to breed your Roller Canaries, place a pair in a cage, which allows room for a nest. The birds will also need nesting material. The hen bird will aimlessly carry nesting material about for a while, depositing it messily. When she becomes neater and more efficient in nest building activity, she is ready to mate and the male will court her. Hartz Roller Canaries usually lay four or five eggs at one or two day intervals. These eggs have brown speckling over a bluish green base color. They will incubate for 13 or 14 days and during this time, the parent canaries should be fed eggfood. Young Hartz Roller Canaries will be fed by their parents for about a month. By three weeks of age, they will begin to move about the cage and eat seeds and eggfood in small amounts. Generally Roller Canaries are not weaned fully until about four weeks of age, though they fledge at about two weeks of age they cannot crack seed very well until they are about a month old. As soon as the Roller Canaries are weaned they should be placed in separate cages.