Announcement April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!

[silkiecuddles]

creativity I must say... nice job @Nifty-Chicken and other admin!!! Who volunteered to monitor this thread for 9+ hours?

This thread has been monitored since midnight pacific time.

kudos to the staff!!

 

[silkiecuddles]

Wait so it really was a prank??? I was that gullible

you certainly weren't the only one!!

 

[FaerieChicken]

First, my questions are:
1) Is the feed a CHEMICAL alteration or additive and if so, what are the potential side effects on a long-term basis, if any?
2) Is there a maximum dosage schedule, or rather an upper limit to not exceed, perhaps "Do not feed for longer than X amount of months/weeks/years etc?
3) How many of the 500 hens in the study, per color group (ratios), did not produce the colored eggshell or a desired color (Color other than the intended color), so in other words what is the accuracy of your product?
4) Is the mechanism of action actually from the calcium proteins that are ingested, such as how flamingos will eat shrimp &/or krill to obtain their pink feather coloring?


Now for my Product Labeling Entry:

{Company Name}'s Rainbow Brite Eggs in:
~Pink Rose (Pale Pink)
~Crisp Sky Blue (Pale Blue)
~Minty Mojito (Pale Green)
~Chocolate Wonder (Dark Brown)

EDIT:
So I had one afterthought! If you were to hatch a fertile egg with the altered eggshell from a hen having ate and produced the varied colored eggshell, will the genetic makeup of the chick then be altered and if a hen then produce, itself without the need of the feed, the eggshell color it was hatched from? Also, if a Roo, will it then produce chicks that, if hens, will then too produce the eggshell colors the Roo hatch from, carrying over the altered genetic mutation? Thus now creating a GMO chicken line?

 

[koopmaster]

Name suggestion Prism Laying Feed.

 

[robin127]

Oh, cmon everybody. I would name it a very clever April Fool's post. There's just no way.

 

[ChickALing]

How about "Colour Eggs" name should not be complicated. That was the whole purpose of the experiment to turn white eggs into Coloured one.

 

[TwoCrows]

You all had us on our toes all day, keeping an eye out for all those nay-sayers!

 

[rIrs roost]

You all had us on our toes all day, keeping an eye out for all those nay-sayers!

 

[superchik]

Cameleon Color Feed
Color Cameleon Feed

 

[silkiecuddles]

You all had us on our toes all day, keeping an eye out for all those nay-sayers!

As soon as my post was deleted, I realized what was happening. tried to play it cool the remaining day. Pretty hard to. XD