When is a canaries actual breeding season?

[CanaryLover]

I let my canaries breed last fall, because I didn't know any better. But when is their actual breeding season? Spring? Summer? Fall?

[MGS]

It is spring. you have to get the birds in condition LONG before they are paired up for breeding. Lighting is important. Food is important. You can't just put them together in a cage with a nest. They should be either in a molt or beginning a molt at this time of year. Please go to canarynest.net and join. There is so much more information that you need to responsibly breed canaries.

[Zeina]

It's in spring,mine usually start preparing for nesting in february, but I never did put them together till the beginning of spring!

[debbielabella]

my two had a clutch in March. I separated them when the mom wanted to start another nest, and put her in a cage at the other end of the house. She continued to lay eggs even though she had no nest in a food dish. I let her keep them hoping that would stop her from laying. She ditched them after a week, layed more, kept those for a week and went on to lay another. It was four clutches altogether she layed, one infertile before the first clutch hatched. I finally put the male back in with her since they were both dying to be together and she kept laying eggs anyway, and they are happy to be together again and she seems to finally be done with egg laying. I hope they will enjoy each others company until spring when I will separate them again. They have 3 beautiful babies. They are 1/2 gloster 1/2 american singer. I am too picky to sell them to local petstores. They are in huge flights. I have another male canary that I have to keep in a separate room from the pair because of the stress it puts on him trying to get to the female. One of the babies is a male who will need to be separated by winter. They take up more room than my parrots in my house because they are not let out of their cages so need huge flights. That paired with not being able to keep the males in the same room if there is a pair makes keeping canaries more difficult than I think the average person who walks into petco realizes. I won't be breeding mine again because very few people give them the space they need to live happy lives in their homes. If I sell them I will know chances are good someone stuck them in those tiny cages they sell at chainstores for canaries and finches, not knowing their true joy in life is flying and they can barely hope from perch to perch in there. Don't need that on my soul just for the sake of making my life a little easier and making a couple bucks. It was a joy watching them grow. The male baby has the prettiest song of all my birds because he sings with beak closed and is is quieter but more varied. Truth is I don't want to part with them anyways.

[Canarygirl]

As a canary breeder I've seen so many canary mills of people who let them breed all year, that is so cruel to the canaries. Like has been said here, spring is the time, just like in the wild. I put mine together in March and let them have 2 clutches and then seperate them. They will thank you by being healthy and when it is time, large clutches of healthy babies...