Here is an example of an application of dowsing – sexing\nhen\u2019s eggs. Possibly unsexy to many, the accounts are still interesting, for\nthe way they illustrate real dowsing problems, the pitfalls and discoveries\nalong the way. This is presumably why many dowsers have often limited their application\nof dowsing, to only a certain range of problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have included two articles from 1940s editions of the BSD\njournal. The 1945 article is a dowser\u2019s experiences working out how to sex eggs\nreliably. The author refers to dowsing as \u201cradio perception\u201d, a common idea at\nthat time, being that dowsing was a person\u2019s ability to act as some kind of\nradio receiver. (In fact, the BSD journal was renamed \u201cRadio Perception\u201d for\nseveral years). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The article is a little difficult to follow at times, as she\nrecounts several unexpected discoveries along the way, but here are the main\npoints. She found that pendulums comprising different materials gave different\nlevels of reliability, up to a maximum of 80%. However, when she used a silver\nchain as a pendulum, an item which she wore regularly, she achieved a reliability\nof 100%. As she put it, this might have had something to do with the pendulum\nbeing more \u201cattuned\u201d to her. She made the\nfurther discovery that there were four types of response when sexing an egg:\nmale, female, infertile, or fertile, but the chick would not live long.\nInterestingly, the strength of the dowsing reaction was dependent on the\nvitality of the egg, such that it became possible to predict which eggs were\nworth incubating. Finally, and importantly, through careful breeding, she was\nable to test and successfully confirm to herself her dowsing ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The article is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n