Uintah Basin Record | 1933-12-15 | Page 2 | Start out as Hens, Change into Cocks

Start Out as Hens, Change Into Cocks Yountsvllle, Calif. Several ring-neck pheasants raised by I the state bureau of game propa- gatlon will soon be turned over to the eugenics department of the University of California because be-cause of the peculiar manner In which they havo been transformed trans-formed since they were hatched. Although they started out In life as hens, they now sport bril liant male plumage and It is thought the sex transformation may be complete In one or two rases. j Although such instances are I unusual they do not occur as I rarely ns one might suppose, according ac-cording to August Hade, head of the California game bureau. He says that one or two out of ten or' fifteen thousand pheasants are freaks of this nature.