The pedigree is a genealogical certificate where it figures the data of the fathers, grandparents, great-grandparents and great great grandfather of a Canariy, sex, his date of birth, ring, the name of the breeder and complementary data. Until 2011, there was not an official database that certified the veracity of the genealogical tree that the breeders bring when they transfer a canary to another breeder. Already before the 2011, in many associations there was an official database, which controlled and the pedigrees of the belonging breeders were certified to the society. Generally the breeders associated to these societies, when breeding season is finished they deliver the pedigrees of the canaries that born in the season , there for the month of July-August.

Importance of pedigree

The use of the pedigrees or genealogical trees is every time more extended among the canaricultores, cual is either the race or variety that cultivate. The breeders of Canaries of how much I am not an exception and the pedigree was converted by own merits in an essential element in the exchange of copies among the canaricultores of elite.

It is true that this practice is not carried out by the whole of the amateurs yet, but the number of his defenders goes in increase and will arrive a day, at least that would be the desirable one, in what our pedigrees will have the same importance and validity that have, for putting an example, in the world of the baby animal of race dogs. Undoubtedly it is a field in which the associations and ornithological federations will have a lot to say, since those that will have to determine the statutory frame in which the registration of the copies of every breeder who is interested has to be based on giving official validity to the pedigree of his Canarians are those institutions. The pedigrees in the present moment, as they do not have the official back of associations and federations, are based on the good faith of the canaricultores, reason for which we have to trust this.

The pedigrees are, besides, an extremely effective weapon against the halo of secrecy that invades many nurseries and against the insecurity in which many new amateurs are moved when acquiring his first Canarians of race, when lacking guarantees enough with regard to the racial pureness gave. But especially, of the pedigree extremely valuable information can be extracted on his owner. We can know his ancestry, as tool works the breeder (that type of crosses carried out), the degree of consanguinity of the animal and another type of information on time of preparing our own crosses. If besides we know well the copies that appear in the pedigree and his most relevant characteristics, we will be able to extract the characteristics that have priority or should have priority and, especially, in attention with the aim of this work, the lines of how much that they predominate in the object Canarian of analysis.

Naturally, if we do not have a great knowledge of the copies that figure in the pedigree or this is accompanied by informative or explanatory notes of the breeder, to facilitate the interpretative work, that which we will have in our hands will not be more than a card in which there is a succession of numbers of rings written, that out of to inform us on the type of crosses carried out, us will not serve absolutely for anything, only for having a guarantee on the racial pureness of the copy in question, that in some cases it will not be little..

Pedigree software.