DYED Easter Chicks???

[PineappleMama]

Colored chicks is specifically covered in Arlington's Code... makes me wonder just how bad a problem it was to get that nod into the codes.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

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[chickensducks&agoose]

 

[debilorrah]

chickensducks&agoose :

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15081_100_1103.jpg

I like that photo = it shows the color growing out and the white coming in. Though most of the colored chicks are white leghorn roosters. Just so ya know if you decide to get some.​

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

we inspected her today, one rogue pink feather on her left wing, otherwise, totally white. She's an Easter Egger too!

 

[MuranoFarms]

Ok...confession time here. About a dozen years ago I went to this rabbit farm. I went quite regularly because I had a 10 foot columbian red tailed boa and well...he ate small rabbits. Anyway, I bought too many rabbits and one got extremely large in the holding pen so I took him back to the farm to see if she wanted him. The lady was so happy to have an adult male that when my daughter was looking at the little chicks running around she gave her 2! I live in city limits, what I was going to do with 2 chickens....I don't know! but the puppy dog eyes did me in and I said she could keep them. Well, I asked about feeding them and the lady told me cornmeal from the grocery store. As you can imagine they died within a month or so. This lady had a farm with a dozen breeding rabbits and twice as many chickens running around and that is what she said to feed them so I assumed it was correct. I'm sure lots of people get incorrect information when buying chicks at roadside stands and such.

Fast forward to now.....I place "wanted, your Easter chicks & ducks" ad's on craigslist a few weeks after the holiday. I always get calls and end up with some extra critters. They are not always what I want, but even if I rehome them with a farm or backyard flock they are much better off then getting dumped in the park or abandoned somewhere.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I like that photo = it shows the color growing out and the white coming in. Though most of the colored chicks are white leghorn roosters. Just so ya know if you decide to get some.

I'll agree with white leghorn, but since they are dyed in the egg, there is no way to tell pullets from cockerels.

 

[GooseFanatic]

Why can't people leave the animals how they are.
If u really want a dyed animal GET A STUFFED ONE!

 

[drumstick diva]

totally agree

 

[G Mitch]

I do it every Easter by injecting the dye into the egg . My grandchildren love them but my birds never leave our farm and eventually go into egg production . Food dye is harmless to them . 99 % of ours do just fine .