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From: jackson@utzoo.UUCP (Don Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Genetic sexing 
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 13:41:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 13:41:06 1987
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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
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