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    A Guide To Sexing Chicks
    A Guide To Sexing Chicks
    A Guide To Sexing Chicks
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    A Guide To Sexing Chicks

    By Charles S. Gibbs

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473353275
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      A Guide To Sexing Chicks - Charles S. Gibbs

      A GUIDE TO

      SEXING CHICKS

      BY

      CHARLES S. GIBBS

      Research Professor of Veterinary Science,
      Massachusetts State College,
      Amherst

      ILLUSTRATED

      1935

      PREFACE

      THE writer of this first edition of A Guide to Sexing Chicks was a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Nanking, Nanking, China, during the period that Dr. Kiyoski Masui and Dr. Juro Hashimoto discovered and gave to the world the art of sexing chicks. Also he made two visits to Japan and had the good fortune of sitting at the feet of Dr. Masui during a series of lectures and seeing Kojima at work among a group of Japanese student-farmers.

      Later he found Chinese farmers practising the art in the large poultry raising districts of Shantung. It seems that the art of sexing chicks has been known in the Orient for a long time, but credit should be extended to Dr. Masui, Dr. Hashimoto, Mr. Kojima and Mr. Sakyiyama for raising the art out of mediocrity and placing it on a scientific foundation for the benefit of the poultry industry the world over.

      Since returning from the Orient it has been a pleasure for the past five years to make the art of sexing chicks available to the poultrymen of the United States and Canada. With this end in view the writer has given unsparingly of his experience, time and energy to the preparation of this guide, and it is hoped that it will reach a larger group of poultrymen than is physically possible in lectures and demonstrations.

      Finally, it must be admitted that this guide is addressed primarily to poultrymen who are unable to obtain expert assistance in sexing chicks, and if it will make up for the lack of properly trained teachers for the time being it will have served its purpose well.

      —CHARLES S. GIBBS.

      Massachusetts State College,

      Amherst, Mass.

      CONTENTS

      I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      PERSONAL APPRAISAL

      BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

      THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROCESS

      SOME REASONS FOR SEXING CHICKS

      II. GENERAL TECHNIQUE

      THE EQUIPMENT

      THE METHOD

      FIRST PRACTISE

      HOLDING THE CHICK

      IDENTIFYING THE PROCESS

      CROSS-BREEDS

      THE LATERAL FOLDS

      TRAINING THE EYE

      CHECKING THE RESULTS

      ANOTHER LESSON IN SEXING

      III. SPECIAL TECHNIQUE

      TYPES OF PROCESSES

      Male Chick Types

      Female Chick Types

      GROUPS OF PROCESSES

      Rotund Group

      a. Papular Process

      b. Small Rotund Process

      c. Large Rotund Process

      d. Irregular Rotund Process

      The Pointed Group

      a. Pyramidal Process

      b.

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