Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!jackson From: jackson@utzoo.UUCP (Don Jackson) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Genetic sexing Message-ID: <9048@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 13:41:06 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.9048 Posted: Fri Dec 4 13:41:06 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 13:41:06 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 23 larrabee@decwrl.dec.com (a.k.a Tracy Larrabee) inquires: >Has anyone else besides me used Vivagen for genetic sexing? >I have talked to a breeder "who has a friend" >(apocryphal story?) who send in 30 Hyacinth Macaw specimens and got back >100% reverse on the correct sexes (she new the correct sexes already ... ***? It seems to me that you are missing the obvious. If the technique was 100% incorrect, then all you need to do is change the diagnosis. Now the technique will be 100% correct. I'm surprised that even a domestic parrot breeder didn't figure that one out! I was wondering if you would provide a reference to Vivagen? I am not aware of how it works. Is it a powder that works like Litmus paper? If it's a boy parrot, the powder turns blue and if it's a girl, it goes pink. Is that the way it works? -- Name: Don Jackson Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!jackson