Dying ducklings for Easter.....

[Bleenie]

I have 'internally' (in the egg) dyed chicks before. I had okay hatch rates and some cute colored chicks running around but Decided that the hatcheries must have experts doing theirs to be able to make money off of them.

It's a very deilcate process. I had a couple grow but not hatch & some that stopped part way through. but also some that made it just fine....

I ended up taking some to the auction when they started growing out and one of the girls that works there boguht them for $11/ea!! I was amazed..aparently she was too. (BUT i don't reccomend this as a $maker) I just wanted to try it..was curious how it would turn out.

 

[kera!]

if it is pastels you want beet juice will make them light pink to a bright pink and them spinach juice will make them green and blueberry juice purple it not die I think it would be better for them you can look it up on google good luck..

 

[dianaross77]

You can use kool-aid on them after they hatch. Someone on here just dyed a silkie pink for a wedding. I don't know what she used but it was really cute! Groomers dye poodles all the time.

 

[TLWR]

I have no clue how it was done, but we saw these guys when we flew down here last year before we closed on the house

 

[critterranch]

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im pretty sure to sell them is illegal in new york. but if you just keep hem for yourself it is ok. they show colored silkies at state fair, but they are just for show not for sale.

new york has funny laws.

 

[critterranch]

2. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or display living baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits which have been dyed, colored or otherwise treated so as to impart to them an artificial color.



just found this on new york state website. so dont know why they always display them at state fair? that is puzzling?


3. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or give away living baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits under two months of age in any quantity less than six.

here another crazy new york state law.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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Me too. Even though the dye used for animals is allegedly harmless. See, I wouldn't think of doing anything artificial like that to a baby animal, that I wouldn't do to a real baby.

X2 and I hate to hear of ppl. doing it...ughhhh. of course it's safe, because you dont have it on you...so how can a duck say it burns or not or whatever the case may be.

 

[Big Dreamer]

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Me too. Even though the dye used for animals is allegedly harmless. See, I wouldn't think of doing anything artificial like that to a baby animal, that I wouldn't do to a real baby.

Just sayin aren't baby animals real babies too. SO i wouldnt even do it to them.. IMO

 

[destinduck]

One of my fondest earliest memories and the first birds I ever cared for was dyed chicks that my mother bought for us brothers. Mine was called "peep peep" So if you ask me about dyeing ducklings or chicks Id definitely say yes. food coloring dye doent affect them a bit. somebody once said it was clothes dye they used on them way back then which was not good and alot died But mine made it but my brothers didnt.