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I'm siding with you here. Just because something is sold at a pet store does not make it healthy. I've worked for a major toy retailer for many years, and you'd br surprised at how many toys are axed out of the system as being unsafe for children, then repackaged and marketed to pet suppliers as fun for pets. In many cases, there is no monitoring at all; for some items, it is simply a numbers game, easily manipulated. Companies hire the right trained people to keep all under the wire. As far as what one puts in and on a creature you are responsible for, common sense gleamed through communication works well, and asking is a good thing! Let's look at a few examples: Ol Roy food has major sales. But research indicates that it is not healthy, just a filler. But people buy into it because it is popular, and a quick look at their beloved pet indicates this is true.
Do research on nail care, and although there isn't enough proof out yet, studies on humans alone and color show spikes of long term muscle issues, not to mention fumes breathed in. Chickens have smaller lungs. Contrary to what some say, any dyes are a risk. If what your chicken ingests changes the egg - then so does what it comes into contact with. Try this: take a piece of fresh garlic, cut it in half, rub it on the sole of one of your feet. Wait for it...wait for it...can you taste it? Or try this: lift a specific amount of weights for one minute. Keep count. Wait a while, then go back: first sprinkle a little sugar on the palm of one hand.lift the weights again for the same amount of time. Note the difference.
Chickens are small creatures. Applying dye, even koolaide based isn't healthy. Pediatricians worldwide would love to get this off market. Even without sugar, in humans case studies show higher levels associated with autism, ADD, ADHD. In comparison to size, that would be like humans bathing I'm a case of the stuff.
With children/infants , the rule of thumb is if you can't ingest it yourself, toss it. If you can't ingest the equivalent in comparison to chickens, the same should hold true.
Maybe when we humans can act like chickens and produce eggs we can then raise chickens to resemble humans.
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The obvious problem that I would expect with a Kool-Aid dyed chick, or any dyed chick, would be it's likelihood of being pecked by other chicks in the brooder...especially if dyed pink or red, which is a color that is especially attractive to chicks. Add to this the sweet, pleasant taste of sugar-soaked feathers and down...
Plus, I'd be curious to see what the effect on humans would be if they soaked in bathwater with 10 lbs of sugar dissolved into it.
Seeing how incredibly happy my chicks are with a good dust bath
, I think I'll just leave it at that. I find the natural, lustrous and irridescent colors of their emerging feathers to be so amazing and beautiful, I wouldn't ever dream of doing anything to interfere with it.
