Fight against illegal easter chicks!

[HawaiiCoyote]

I have been seeing these for sale on craigslist... poor things.

I have seen full-grown dyed silkies on Craigs this Easter. Poor silkies
(I mean I'm sure they miss that snowy white fluff of theirs)

 

[PippinTheChicken]

https://www.the961.com/illegal-to-sell-colored-chicks-beirut-lebanon/

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have never heard of Easter chicks being illegal. Dying a chick a color does not harm it if you use proper dyes. And lost of people naturally buy Chris around Easter since it's warner than early spring

 

[Lucy Brown]

I have never heard of Easter chicks being illegal. Dying a chick a color does not harm it if you use proper dyes. And lost of people naturally buy Chris around Easter since it's warner than early spring

I feel like dying them is not humane, and they get thrown away because people dont realize how much work chickens are to take care of

 

[Lucy Brown]

But dying them is not inhumane. It doesn't hurt them or cause them difficulty living just because they're a pink or blue chick. It can be quite useful even when sorting chicks

And people that don't realize they're a lot of work buy them even unrelated to Easter

rooster also get abandoned on the side of the road if they cant keep it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

rooster also get abandoned on the side of the road if they cant keep it.

And?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I feel like they deserve better to be left on a side of a road to starve or be killed by predators.

That isn't just because of "Easter chicks"

 

[Lucy Brown]

That isn't just because of "Easter chicks"

yes, but this is also part of the reason.

 

[Lucy Brown]

Yeah, or they don't want to deal with the emotional stress of killing it. They'd rather it die a painful death on the side of the road.

It's really a complicated thing. There is no "solution" to this issue. I don't think people will really care about this either.