Hello from ROGER STROMAN; welcome to my website AND to my fascinating retirement hobby. Someday, if it is your pleasure, perhaps I can personally welcome you to my home in Vermilion, Ohio.

Whether by visiting this website or by visiting the aviaries in my home, I hope you will enjoy what I have to offer. As you will find, I am totally infatuated with these marvelous little songsters, and being retired from the world of work, I get "lost" in the many aspects that canary culture offers.

Starting in the summer of 2008, I had to downsize my hobby due to advancing age and a worsening health related condition; therefore, reluctantly, I eliminated all recessive white canaries but for those who still want an all white (or nearly so) I can offer the counterpart--American Singer dominant whites. I have also cut my numbers down on red factor canaries and even more so on the Columbus Fancy canaries. 2008 was a terrific year for producing normal headed Gouldian finches and I will, for the first time, have some of those to sell in early 2009. From now on most of my time and energy will be devoted mainly to my real passion and interest in canaries, the American Singers; but I will still have available in limited numbers some Columbus Fancy, Red Factors, and Gouldian finches.

Each winter I will raise many American Singers and from now on will raise only small numbers of Red Factors and even smaller numbers of the Columbus Fancy birds. My breeding season runs from mid-December through about May lst. Birds are normally available for sale (USUALLY TO PERSONS ON MY WAITING LIST FIRST) after the summer molt is complete and a more accurate sexing can be done. Please note that I DO NOT SHIP CANARIES OR GOULDIAN FINCHES, as I cannot control how they are handled and the post office in my town will not accept shipments of birds other than poultry.

I do not compete in any shows with my Red Factor, Columbus Fancy, or Gouldians although my canary stock originated from show persons in each type. Red Factors are in the colorbred (colored print) category and are beautiful to look at. Males sing, of course, but emphasis in their development was on color and not on song. I do have some nicely colored Red Factors that have large bodies and my lines have been reliable in parenting young. I raise both clear lipochrome and variegated and bronze birds. All my Reds are colorfed twice-- by the parents while the young are in the nest and also during any subsequent molt that occurs (baby or annual) so that each bird can attain its full color potential.

Columbus Fancy are a combination of Norwich and Crested Rollers in their background development, which took place near Columbus, Ohio; thus, they take their name from their geographic origins! They occur in either smooth headed or crested head individuals in either sex. Their bodies are large and, to me, they resemble the "teddy bear" version of a canary! Their colors can be very rich and vibrant and the song is also very pleasant in the males I raise. At a competition show, they would fall into the "type" category or division and would be judged mainly on their conformation or body type with emphasis on the crest as well.

Even though I enjoy all the different kinds of canaries, my real passion, area of concentration, and interest is on the American Singer Canary. It is this kind of canary for which I am widely known among competition people and also locally among those persons seeking to buy a pet singing canary or foundation stock for breeding. Anyone who has ever heard an American Singer canary sing quickly realizes that this song type canary is a remarkable bird in the songs they produce. Note that this song type canary is truly an American creation and Americans can take all the credit for its development and existence whereas the other song type canaries were all developed in foreign countries. American Singers are a cross between German Roller and English Border canaries. The result is a canary that, if he is a good one, sings with a lot of variety, high and low range notes, great tone quality, and with nice melodious sound. I think they are both pleasing to the ear and to the eye, as they occur in quite a few colors.

Please also, visit my NEW "Sound Clips" where you can listen to some of my best competition males sing, and see if they have something that appeals to you. In closing, my hope is that you will find something here in my website that will assist you in some way or will just cater to your desire to look at what others are doing with these wonderful little creatures. Thank you for visiting my website. Feel free to contact me and let me know if I can assist you further in any way.