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PAIRING up canaries can be a hit-or-miss affair, as individual hens will react in different ways. This breeding season has been no exception, for as I write this in April, I have three hens with chicks in the nest and others on eggs, while two hens are simply playing with nesting material but failing to get down to serious breeding. One hen had pushed an egg to the side of the nest and I did not immediately notice it. I then