ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 26

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

EGG WITH TWO SHELLS. “Curious,” Papakura.—We have heard of complete eggs, shelled, yolk, white, and everything, within another egg, but I cannot say I have ever heard of an egg with a duplicate shell, with a simple of white between the two, and I should refer to this as being something extraordinary and in the nature of a curiosity. You have broken it to see the inner shell, and I note you have cooked it. otherwise I should have advised you to preserve it in waterglass as a curiosity.

DISPUTE AS TO SEX LINKAGE “Shackleton,” Avondale. —The poultryman was not right when he told you that what you read was incorrect. It is surprising to find an up-to-date poultryman who is not “au fait” with sex linkage. It is perfectly correct that if you cross Bari*ed Rocks with Black Leghorn males you will be able to distinguish the cockerels and pullets as soon as they are hatched, and the same thing applies in the case of Light Sussex hens or pullets and Brown Leghorn cockerels. In the former cross, that of the Barred -Rock, the pullets will be those birds which are black at the back of the head, and the cockerels will be the birds which are white, or have a greyish spot at the back of the head known as the occipital spot. In case of the Sussex cross, the white birds are the cockerels, and those that are brown or golden in colour are the pullets. Of course, this has no bearing at all on the number of cockerels or pullets that are hatched—it is simply a matter of sex distinction as soon as they are out of the shell. '