How to tie dye chicks?

[Animals970]

Sometimes at Tractor Supply and at some of my freinds farms their chicks will be tie-died. They will be pink, blue, red, and many more colors. I hatched some Buff Orpington chicks recently and want to name them, so of course I have to tell the difference in them. So I need to know how to tie dye chicks.

 

[Megan Amber]

I was gonna use my air brush machine to spray food coloring on the chicks!

 

[WindGypsy]

Could you use a dot of food coloring on the top of their heads? I would assume that food coloring wouldn't harm them like harsh chemicals or other types of dye.

 

[Animals970]

Ok, thanks. I don't have an airbrush machine (wish i did though) and I will try to do the dot of food coloring. But I'm gonna see what other people suggest first

 

[Megan Amber]

Okie Dokie!

 

[3riverschick]

These chicks are solid colors? That is done in the shell. A person will take different colors of non-toxic vebetable dye. Then very carefully with a very thin syringe, injects a drop of dye thru the shell, being very careful not to touch the chick. A tiny piece of tape covers the hole until the chick hatches. The chick will hatch out the color injected in the shell. It will be that color until it sheds its chick down. Then will grow in new feathers in its normal color and remain its normal color from then on.
People call these chicks "Easter chicks".
Best,
Karen

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Food coloring and Kool-Aid work well for marking chicks so you can tell them apart. Leg bands and zip ties work well too. You just have to be careful and watch the zip ties, change them out as the chicks grow. A zip tie embedded in the chicken leg is ugly!

 

[kazoo1111]

good idea