Dyed/Colored chicks @ Ideal Poultry?! Disturbing!!

[Nifty-Chicken]

Once we get back into the chick selling season we'll start up the "Save A Chick" campaign:

http://backyardchickens.com/save-a-chick.php

The issue isn't the "colored chicks" as much as it is an issue with people getting animals and not being prepared to take care of them.

 

[lurky]

I think you should call it the crayola chick rescue ..... or something like that.

 

[jenichick]

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That's exactly what I was thinking. I'll support such a campaign. Thanks!

 

[snugglepup]

I know where you are coming from AF. Don't even get me started on people impulse buying animals. Or impulse breeding, when they aren't prepared to deal with the potential consequences.

It never ceases to amaze me that people will put far less thought into buying a dog, than they do into buying a car, which they won't have for near as many years.

 

[lurky]

you got that right.

 

[jenichick]

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very well said!!!

 

[Bubba]

What exactly is wrong with impulse breeding? I mean they made bars pretty much just for that purpose

Bubba

 

[lurky]

 

[palabeco]

I remember my brothers and I got colored chicks for Easter one year. They were lucky they survived, cause we handled them so much, even slid them down the sliding board and tossed them in the air to see if they would fly. We didn't know any better, we were kids. When they got bigger they went to grandmas farm. We would visit and try to catch the our own chicken(by then there was just a little color left on the tail feathers). One day when visiting GM we couldn't find the chickens, GM said the chicken hawk got them. When it was time to leave, GM went to the freezer and handed mom a bag of some meat. We didn't realize till we were older that the meat in the bag was our chickens!

But anyways, I thought that selling colored chicks for easter was banned years ago because its inhumane.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

When we do an experimental cross, we dye the chicks while they are in the shell so we can monitor feather growth. Alot of people think that they dye the chicks after they are hatched but they are actually dyed in the shell by poking a hole in the shell and injecting dye, then covering the hole with wax or a band-aid.