Sexing eggs

Here is an example of an application of dowsing – sexing hen’s eggs. Possibly unsexy to many, the accounts are still interesting, for the way they illustrate real dowsing problems, the pitfalls and discoveries along the way. This is presumably why many dowsers have often limited their application of dowsing, to only a certain range of problems.  

I have included two articles from 1940s editions of the BSD journal. The 1945 article is a dowser’s experiences working out how to sex eggs reliably. The author refers to dowsing as “radio perception”, a common idea at that time, being that dowsing was a person’s ability to act as some kind of radio receiver. (In fact, the BSD journal was renamed “Radio Perception” for several years).

The article is a little difficult to follow at times, as she recounts several unexpected discoveries along the way, but here are the main points. She found that pendulums comprising different materials gave different levels of reliability, up to a maximum of 80%. However, when she used a silver chain as a pendulum, an item which she wore regularly, she achieved a reliability of 100%. As she put it, this might have had something to do with the pendulum being more “attuned” to her.  She made the further discovery that there were four types of response when sexing an egg: male, female, infertile, or fertile, but the chick would not live long. Interestingly, the strength of the dowsing reaction was dependent on the vitality of the egg, such that it became possible to predict which eggs were worth incubating. Finally, and importantly, through careful breeding, she was able to test and successfully confirm to herself her dowsing ability.

The article is here:

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/ BSD_No49_1945_p208.pdf

The 1943 article is a short letter to the BSD journal, from another dowser, illustrating their attempts to sex eggs. Here they provide actual figures, although the numbers are too small to be statistically meaningful, but still they might be indicative of a relatively high confidence level. What is particularly interesting I think, is the is that one egg had become coated in the remains of a broken egg, with the effect of masking the underlying fertile egg from the dowser’s search. An unexpected phenomenon indeed. Again, this shows the care required when dowsing. But with experience of dowsing for given types objects, suitable questions can be established to deal with such eventualities.  Another reason why a dowser might specialise in the way they apply their art.

The article is here:

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/ BSD_No39_1943_p206.pdf