| Title: | Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN! |
| Notice: | INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.* |
| Moderator: | VIDEO::PULSIFER |
| Created: | Mon Oct 10 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Hi,
A long distance friend of mine bought a parakeet from a pet store a few
months ago. A breeder of cockatiels and parakeets visited her house
recently and told her, that her bird is a cross between a parakeet and
a canary !
Anybody ever heard of this ?
I told her the breeder was probably pulling her leg. She says she had
thought so to but the breeder said:
she's seen this only once or twice before in about 10 years of
breeding. Evidently it can happen with a very "horny" female keet.
The offspring are sexless and have some characteristics of both birds.
The breeder HEARD the parakeet first and asked where the canary was.
My Friend told her it was a keet and the breeder said no way but then
also heard keet sounds. She looked at the keet; his coloring which is
white/yellow and said it is a cross between a canary and a keet. It's
sort of like a cross between a horse and and donkey. Produces a mule
which is unbreedable. . . .
canakeet, paranary, cankeet ????????
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| 748.1 | none of the above... | USHS05::VASAK | Sugar Magnolia | Fri Nov 06 1992 21:24 | 10 |
She's offbase - far offbase. Canaries are essentially finches, are
extremely genetically different from 'keets, feed their young much
differently, etc. Just not possible, IMO.
There are plenty of lutino pied 'keets (white/yellow). Keets are first
rate mimics and, if kept in a store or aviary with canaries, can
certainly learn to imitate canary songs and noises.
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| 748.2 | ESKIMO::JOERILEY | Everyone can dream... | Mon Nov 09 1992 05:38 | 6 | |
I think that particular bird refused to get on Noahs Arc in support
of the unicorns. I've raised parakeets for over twenty years and all I
can say is I hope this fellow was joking.
Joe
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| 748.3 | Parakeet mimicking finch | KELVIN::GERRY | I'll never get a dinner! | Tue Nov 10 1992 17:20 | 9 |
re.1:
To my amazement, my parakeet has recently started to mimic my
(recently adopted) zebra finch - of course he isn't copying
the "beep" of the female- he is doing the male's song which
sort of sounds like a squeaky clothesline pulley/ I am sure
many of you are familiar with the sound! Luckily, the 'keet
isn't quite as loud as the finch, but he sure does have him
wondering where the other male finch is!
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| 748.4 | NO CAN-KEET!!! | BRAT::BOURGAULT | Thu Jan 07 1993 16:34 | 3 | |
THIS IS UTTERLY ABSURD!!!!
Denise B.
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