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Hello from ROGER STROMAN and 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 my aviaries in my home, I hope you will enjoy
what I have to offer you. As you will find out
either way, I am totally infatuated with these marvelous
little songsters, and being retired from the world
of work, I get "lost" daily in the many aspects that
canary culture offers.
This is a retirement hobby to which I
devote huge amounts of time and energy and from which I
derive immense enjoyment and personal satisfaction.
Believe me when I say that I go "the extra mile" in
trying to supply my canaries with a varied and complete
nutritional diet and with meticulous care in feeding and
handling.
I raise and enjoy four different kinds
of canaries:
American Singers, Red
Factors,
Columbus Fancy, and
Recessive
Whites. Each Winter,
I raise many American Singers and Red Factors, and much
smaller numbers of Columbus Fancy and Recessive Whites.
My breeding seasons runs from mid-December through to
about May 1st. 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, as I cannot control how they are handled.
I do not compete in any shows with my
Red Factor, Columbus Fancy, or Recessive White canaries,
although my stock originated from show persons with each
type. Red Factors are in the
colorbred category
and are beautiful to look at. Males sing, of
course, but emphasis in their development was on color
and not song. I do have nicely colored Red Factor
canaries that have large bodies and my lines have been
reliable in parenting young. I raise mostly clear lipochrome birds, but also a few variegated and bronze.
All my reds are colorfed by the parents while in the
nest and also during any subsequent molt that occurs
(baby or annual) so that each bird can attain its full
color potential.
On a small scale, I raise a few
Columbus Fancy and Recessive Whites. 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. Their bodies
are large and, to me, resemble the "teddy bear" version
of a canary. Their colors can be very rich and
vibrant and the song also is very pleasant in the males
I raise. At a show, they would fall into the
"type" category and would be judged mainly on their
conformation or body type with emphasis on the crest as
well.
The Recessive Whites are pure white
and, like the Red Factors, fall within the "colorbred"
category, where emphasis in development was on
conformation and color mainly. Mine sing loudly
and can easily be heard. They are beautiful to
look at, as they are all white, but without pink eyes.
There is also a Dominant White canary which I have in
American Singers, but they display some yellow on the
wing butts.
Even though I enjoy 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 canary or foundation stock for
breeding. Anyone who has ever heard an American
Singer canary sing realizes that this song type canary
is a remarkable bird in the way they sing.
Americans can take all the credit for the existence of
this type of canary, for this is an American creation.
American Singers are a cross between a German Roller and
an English Border canary. 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 webpage where you
can listen to some of my best competition birds sing,
and see if they have something that appeals to you.
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