Coloring a Chick for Easter - CAUTION GRAPHIC & CRUEL (Not real: Joke)

[ChicknThief]

I dont know how many people actually buy them, but what I do know is that it makes me want to just buy them all to ensure that they have good lives for the rest of it. But I guess that would do nothing but drive up the demand for them and as a response the hatcheries would just color a few thousand more next year. *sighs* What a sick world sometimes...

 

[1acrefarm]

Unfortunately alot of people do buy them. The dye in itself does not hurt them afaik. Is just the novelty of it draws alot of people who should not be raising chicks. The novelty usually wears out quickly if they can even keep them alive over a few days.

 

[PurpleChicken]

*JustChicky* :

I am new to chickens and this forum. I can't believe they color baby chicks. Can they really get any cuter than they naturally are? On this forum is the first time I have heard of them and then I saw them for sale on Ideal. I have never seen them in real life and don't want to. I don't get out much!

Do a lot of people really buy them?

I had never heard about it either. We tried to buy chickens last Easter but
no local breeders would sell them to us.

The coloring is supposedly harmless. The problem is people impulse buy them
and many just end up dead from lack of proper care. A $3 animal is disposable.
Hey, it's just a chicken. Plus most are Leghorn roos who would be thrown in
a dumpster at the hatchery or used as packing peanuts.

There are legitimate arguements on both sides.

And Yes, people do buy them, along with ducks and bunnies. The bunny thing
is just as bad if not worse. Rabbits need proper care, probably more than a
chicken.​

 

[Buster]

Quote:
I'll have you know that I baked that cake myself okiechick! First one I ever made from scratch and MissPrissy put me up to it and some other byc'ers walked me through it. My wife almost fell over from the shock when she came home and saw it there.

 

[okiechick57]

wow..I am impressed..........you are a cool man jared........ I remember my first cinnamon rolls...............low in pan and hard as a rock,but hubby at the time.......dipped um in coffee and said he loved um............nearly choked to death trying even

you can come to my house anytime and bake away........

 

[Buster]

It was even good to eat. But my wife said she would have run right home from work early to supervise had she known what I was up to!

 

[JustChicky]

They do it to ducks & bunnies too! I am crushed. I used to have rabbits and they would not be cute dyed. un I don't even want to think about them not getting taken care of. Sounds like how people treat dogs here in East Texas. I have too many skinny puppies with plastic flea collars on too tight that come up to my house.

 

[thndrdancr]

Find friends? Have a life? Well, I have found friends...but...

If I had a life, I wouldnt be here!

Yes, JustChicky, the big prob is they sell them many times for a $1, and the little kids beg until mom gives in, after all, its only a dollar or two.

Then the poor lil things get put in a box that a little 2 or 3 year old doesnt take care of, until mommie gets tired of taking care of it and the lil kid doesnt play with it becuz its not so cute anymore and is too poopy, etc and Mommy is tired of it, then they go "take it to a park, to humanely let it live out its life" where it starves or is eaten and is constantly hungry, cold and terrified.
They are found all the time.

THAT is what PC's post is all about, objecting to THAT. The dye seems to make the kids want them more.

 

[kstaven]

PC has one of the most "unique" ways of getting peoples attention and getting them to think, or at least tries to. Biggest problem with society in general, is people don't think and then refuse to take responsibility for their lack of thought, and resulting actions.

I think that is why I hang out here in my spare time. People here generally don't fit into the above catagory. I'm just not sure anyone could ever come up with a catagory for the people here!

 

[fallenweeble]

you know you've become someone when folks start theorizing regarding your BYC posts.

look out butler, look out derrida, look out mr. smarty-pants foucault,
here comes purple chicken and his ground-breaking, post-post modern neo-absurdist approach to deconstructing chicken/human politics in the 21st century with a heavy emphasis on the ontology of "performing" vs. "being" technicolored. Including a secondary discussion of coloration as a potential dialectical site wherein subordination and resistance intersect to create a hybrid location of possible poultry-based power (currently characterized as "the chicken-kissing enigma").
and also an acknowledgement of some possible epistemological implications of troll-based ruptures in the "chicken-text."

looks like i've finally found a thesis topic worth pursing.