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I completely agree! Why would you want to cover up their natural, beautiful feathers? For fun? For your/other people's entertainment? For looks? All of these reasons and many others, in my opinion, have no meaning or reasoning whatsoever. If you want to go and cover up a chick's natural beauty just for looks or entertainment or fun or any other self-related reason, go ahead. It will be on your hands then. In my opinion, especially if it's for selling the chicks, it's inhumane and pointless. Except for one exception; if you're just doing it with your own chicks, you know what you're doing exactly, and it's not for selling, then it's not as bad. But it's still pointless and you're still covering up something that was meant to be there.
What really gets on my nerves is when people dye baby chicks and baby rabbits and sell them to anyone, whether they have experience with chickens or not. Most of the time, the people who buy them will buy them for the kids for Easter or their kids will really want them. That's why they dye them; kids are attracted to bright, pretty colors. And when you mix an adorable little chick with bright, attractive colors, like pink, red, blue, green, etc...what little kid wouldn't want one? But guess what happens when that cute little chick grows up and becomes an ordinary rooster or hen and the colors fade away? The kids or the parents get bored with it or it's too much work and it's not as entertaining and cute as it was when they bought it. So, they abandon it somewhere or give it away carelessly.
Someone on here told me a story about this. Someone bought a cute little baby chick that was dyed and was sold with a bunch of other chicks to anyone who wanted one. They kept the chick and their kids played with it and they thought it was no big deal; it was just a little chick that just needed water and food. But then that chick grew up, the dye faded away, and it turned into a big rooster. The people grew uninterested in him and because he ate more and took up more space and they didn't have the slightest idea how to care for him, you know what they did with him? They abandoned him in a dumpster down some ally and left him there to fend for himself. Luckily, the BYCer who told this story (sorry, I forgot who told it...) found him in the dumpster. He was skinny and cold and it was a miracle that she came along and found him. She took him home and because she had chickens of her own and had experience, she kept him and took care of him and nursed him back to health.
Although some chickens aren't as lucky. Too many people carelessly buy dyed chicks because of their bright, pretty colors and they don't have any idea how to care for them. It's cruel and sad and should be illegal everywhere to dye and sell them. Sure, as long as you know what you're doing and it's for like a contest or something or just for the fun of it, it should be fine except for the covering-up of their naturally pretty feathers. Pink or red or green or blue or some other color shouldn't unnaturally replace that.
I completely agree! Why would you want to cover up their natural, beautiful feathers? For fun? For your/other people's entertainment? For looks? All of these reasons and many others, in my opinion, have no meaning or reasoning whatsoever. If you want to go and cover up a chick's natural beauty just for looks or entertainment or fun or any other self-related reason, go ahead. It will be on your hands then. In my opinion, especially if it's for selling the chicks, it's inhumane and pointless. Except for one exception; if you're just doing it with your own chicks, you know what you're doing exactly, and it's not for selling, then it's not as bad. But it's still pointless and you're still covering up something that was meant to be there.
What really gets on my nerves is when people dye baby chicks and baby rabbits and sell them to anyone, whether they have experience with chickens or not. Most of the time, the people who buy them will buy them for the kids for Easter or their kids will really want them. That's why they dye them; kids are attracted to bright, pretty colors. And when you mix an adorable little chick with bright, attractive colors, like pink, red, blue, green, etc...what little kid wouldn't want one? But guess what happens when that cute little chick grows up and becomes an ordinary rooster or hen and the colors fade away? The kids or the parents get bored with it or it's too much work and it's not as entertaining and cute as it was when they bought it. So, they abandon it somewhere or give it away carelessly.
Someone on here told me a story about this. Someone bought a cute little baby chick that was dyed and was sold with a bunch of other chicks to anyone who wanted one. They kept the chick and their kids played with it and they thought it was no big deal; it was just a little chick that just needed water and food. But then that chick grew up, the dye faded away, and it turned into a big rooster. The people grew uninterested in him and because he ate more and took up more space and they didn't have the slightest idea how to care for him, you know what they did with him? They abandoned him in a dumpster down some ally and left him there to fend for himself. Luckily, the BYCer who told this story (sorry, I forgot who told it...) found him in the dumpster. He was skinny and cold and it was a miracle that she came along and found him. She took him home and because she had chickens of her own and had experience, she kept him and took care of him and nursed him back to health.
Although some chickens aren't as lucky. Too many people carelessly buy dyed chicks because of their bright, pretty colors and they don't have any idea how to care for them. It's cruel and sad and should be illegal everywhere to dye and sell them. Sure, as long as you know what you're doing and it's for like a contest or something or just for the fun of it, it should be fine except for the covering-up of their naturally pretty feathers. Pink or red or green or blue or some other color shouldn't unnaturally replace that.
