Show I I I Size of Egg Not an Index to Sex Poultry Breeder Must Rely on Nature Says Government Government Govern Govern- Government ment Authority Prepared by the United d States s Department of ot A Agriculture If It you are one of the man many who believe be- be here lieve that the time long slim heavy hen eggs egg's are the ones which hatch out the mule male chicks chicles and that the smaller eggs are the ones which give birth hirth to the future la layers ers of the flock you ou need to revise your our opinion on the mutter matter You may as well leave your tape measure scales calipers and other units at home when you ou go JO forth to purchase a n setting selling of gg e-gg eggs egga from your poultry breeder an and rely solely on Mother Nature to give you a 50 0 dealin deal dealIn eal ealIn In the matter of sex Many Inquiries In answer to the continuous stream of Inquiries pouring Into the lie department depart depart- ment meat office relative to determining the sex of the chick In the shell b by the size shape or weight of the eg egg egg it It It Just Isn't being done That Is not In Ina Ina ina a practical a way at least The Time scientist scientist scion scion- Is able to Identify the time sex of a chick In the shell after seven se or eight days of Incubation however Because of the Important bearing on the time practical aspects of the time poultry In Industry industry In which the time ability to select hatching eggs according to the sex de desired desired de- de c. c sired would have If such were possible pos pas slide sible a number of ot Investigators have made studies concerning n the time sex ratio situation In the time domestic fowl Recently Re lie- DI Dr M. M I. I A A. J Jull 1111 poultry husbandman husband man of the tIme United States Department of Agriculture completed some sonic observations In which he concludes that there Is no correlation between the l length shape or weight of the egg and the sex of ot the tire chick hatched hatchel from It lie has also made studies to determine whether or not there thele Is a correlation between the time weight of the time egg yolk olk and the time sex of the Ole chick or between the yolk water content an and sex ratio with the same negative result I Safe to Count on Females It has been determined however I Ba says gays s 's Doctor Jull that the tire greater tire number of eggs which a hen lien la lays s 's before before be be- fore being put into the time breeding pen the la larger er will ill be the tire proportion of or females an and the smaller the proportion tion of males produced by her eggs The practical man ma may be able to take tale advantage e of this Ibis fact to some extent by br making his selection of eggs for hatching with reference to the hens hen's period of production |