SEX REVERSAL.
DOUBLE PURPOSE FOWLS. . SCIENTIST’S EXPERIMENTS. London, I.9th September. Dr. Crew, head of the Edinburgh School of Scientific Research, addressing the British Association, detailed the life history of liens which underwent sex reversal. One Buff Orpington hen, aged three years and a -half, ceased to lay and began to develop the characteristics of a cockerel. Its plumage changed. First, it sought solitude, then challenged other cockerels, then mated with a hen which reared chickens. He had succeeded in changing the sex of birds artificially, one method being feeding them with thyroid extract. He had ducks which turned into drakes. Hundreds of wild birds, like pheasants, partially changed their sex and plumage. Mammals, including humans, were differently placed. Ho did not think it would ever be possible to turn a man into a woman.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2636, 22 September 1923, Page 3
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134SEX REVERSAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2636, 22 September 1923, Page 3
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