For those that want to sort of follow a guide line of genetic breeding, the proper way to pair a Black Brown, i.e. Green, Blue or Bronze, these should also be paired to Black Brown. Of course, you can pair a Blue to a Green; you will get 100% Black Brown 50% Blue and 50% Green male and female. A Bronze should be paired to a Bronze. The result will be 100% Bronze unless the male is a carrier of something. The above suggested pairing will assure good, strong exhibition quality off springs. 

The Black Brown of all the 3 above mentioned Brown colors, i.e., Green for Yellow Ground, Blue for White Ground and Bronze for Red Orange Ground. It is not a good idea to pair a Bronze to either Green or Blue. It would deteriorate the Ground color of the Bronze and produce off springs of poor quality. 

To produce colorful singers which are easy to dispose the surplus. Pet shops love to buy variegated birds. Therefore you can cross a Green with a Dominant White and you will produce 50% variegated Green and 50% variegated White. All the off springs will be strong, healthy, colorful vigorous singers. It is advisable in any pairing of Canaries to pair only Frost to Non-Frost or vice a versa. 

To produce good Lipochrome Color Bred Canaries the pairing should consist of a Clear Yellow Frost or Non-Frost male to a Clear Yellow female or Dominant White female. Yellow to Dominant White will produce 50% Dominant White and 50% Yellow male and female.

I was fortunate to obtain from Mrs. Pam Cale a Yellow Timbrado male and a variegated White female. From this pair I produced a nice variegated Yellow and variegated White. I obtained another pair of Timbrados from another breeder;

However, both birds were Green; very strong singers. Unfortunately pet shops shy away from Greens and darker Canaries. By using a little common sense in crossing the youngsters produced from Mrs. Cale's pair to the youngsters produced from the Green pair after a couple of years I managed to produce a lot of light color Timbrados in Yellow and Dominant White. Pet shops love the Blue White Timbrados that also are vigorous, strong singers.

To produce exhibition quality Lipochrome Red Orange Ground we must pair Frost to Non-Frost. This will assure good quality of feathering. To produce pet shop quality singers we can cross a Bronze male to a Lipochrome Red Orange Ground female or vice a versa. This pairing will produce colorful variegated Red Canaries and believe me pet shops love them. They are very easy to dispose and same as above they are strong, colorful vigorous singers.

To produce exhibition quality Melanin Red Orange Ground Color Bred Canaries it is very important to pair Bronze to Bronze, Red Brown to Red Brown, Red Agate to Red Agate, Red Isabelle to Red Isabelle. Also it is possible to pair a Bronze to a Brown. This pairing will produce 100% Bronze male and female. However, the males are carriers of Red Brown (a good record of the breeding should be kept). We also can pair Red Agate to Red Isabelle. This pairing will produce 100% Red Agate, but all the males as carriers of Red Isabelle (again, a good record should be kept of this breeding). 

Never pair Bronze to Red Agate or Red Agate to Red Brown. These pairings will produce poor quality off springs. When you pair a Red Agate to Red Brown neither these 2 specimens will impose to each other and will produce very poor exhibition quality off springs. The same is true by crossing a Bronze to a Red Agate. This pairing will produce very poor quality off springs. It will produce Bronze with legs and feet of the Red Agate.

When we work with the latest mutation, such as Ino, Satinette, Pastel, Topaz, etc., these mutations and others should be identified for example: Isabelle Satinette for Yellow Ground, Silver Isabelle Satinette for White Ground and Red Orange Isabelle for Red Orange Ground. The same is true for Pastel, for example it can be Bronze Pastel, Red Orange Brown Pastel, Red Orange Agate Pastel, and Red Orange Isabelle Pastel. The pairing parent of these mutations is the same as the classic color. For example, if we pair a Bronze male Homozygote, which means the Bronze is pure and doesn't carry any factor, to a Bronze Pastel female, the male Bronze is dominant over the Pastel factor. Therefore all the off springs will be Bronze; however, all the males will be carriers of Pastel. For example: by pairing a male Bronze carrier of Pastel to a normal Bronze female will produce the following: 25% normal Bronze males, 25% Bronze males carriers of Pastel, 25% normal Bronze females and 25% of Bronze Pastel females. In order to determine which Bronze is a carrier of the Pastel factor it must be test bred. 

Sometime last year, I don't remember when, I published the Practical Pairing Of Color Bred Canaries. I wonder how many of you have saved it? If many of you are interested in reading the Practical Pairing article again I will be glad to re-post it.