[fyfer2]

How are baby chickens colored for Easter? I remember a pink chick when I was small.
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[rosemcs]

Usually, vegetable dye is injected into the egg before the chick hatches. Some people find this to be animal cruelty though. Years ago, they were sold at stores, but this is not practiced anymore.

[shazamataz]

Yep, just vegetable or food coloring.
It's completely harmless, they use the same thing to color dogs and cats fur.

I don't find the actual act of coloring them wrong but I do find it wrong that they are marketing these cute little chicks at children when they will grow up to be big noisy chickens.

[Aurora_Bell]

Yes my two year old has been asking for a green chicken since I took her to the fair last summer.

[Lucky098]

I think that's horrible to change the chicks color of its downy baby feathers for Easter... Easter isn't suppose to be about mutli-colored chicks anyway... Leave Gods creatures they way they were intended to be!

Plus, I think they're equally as cute yellow! Which is what they're suppose to be!

If you want multi-colored chicks, go buy fake ones... They don't grow up and serve the same purpose!

[Alty]

Yes my two year old has been asking for a green chicken since I took her to the fair last summer.

Why am I thinking Dr.Seuss and green eggs and ham? ;)

I think it's wrong to color them, but I don't think it hurts them.

My Uncle fell for the cute little Easter chicks a few years ago. He ended up buying five little yellow puff balls for his daughter and her kids. He brought them over in a box, no food, nothing.

My cousin didn't have a clue how to care for them, ended up doing a lot of research, had to run out the day after Easter to get supplies (because no stores were open Easter day).

The chicks grew up, one was male and loved to crow at 4 am every morning. Her neighbors complained. She lives in the suburbs. Shortly thereafter the county came to her house to inform her that it's illegal to have chickens on a residential property.

Another impulse buy gone wrong.

She ended up giving them to a lady that has a petting zoo. I hpe they didn't end up becoming a meal. :eek:

[Aurora_Bell]

LOL 4am, OK no chickens in our future.
I always wanted to have a hobbie farm, but I think I may leave out the roosters :P
I remember my aunt has chicks, (lets not talk about what happened to them) but this was also the aunt who bred German Shepherds with my mother, one of the female dogs hurt her hip in the yard after her first litter, my aunt decided to not breed her again. Well I don't know if she went through some sort of mommy complex, but she took to those chicks like you wouldn't believe. Hmm now that I think about it maybe she just wanted to eat them?
Anyway it was cute seeing her lay beside the old pool table and incubator (they hollowed out a pool table and put the heat lights on top and had them in their basement/rec room. She wouldn't let any of the other dogs come near it. When we would go down to look at the chicks, she would wedge her self between us and the table.
That also happens to be my first experience with behaviour modification techniques.