Mulit Coloured Chicks?

[~goingcluckcrazy~]

How do they make chicks green, pink, orange, blue ect?
And has anyone tried it?

 

[NovaAman]

food coloring bath.

 

[anderson8505]

I leave Crayola Washable markers in the coop, I come back and everyone is a different color.

 

[tinychicky]

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lol chickens with markers is like four year olds in art class

 

[cmom]

http://www.poultryhelp.com/coloringchicks.html

 

[ChirpNEggBaby]

I do it every year around Easter with a paint brush and food color...I DO NOT dip the chicks as I think thats cruel. Then use a close dryer on low so they dont get a chill. The hatcheries inject the eggs.

 

[cmom]

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[dandydoodle]

SERIOUSLY!!!!!! That just kind of seems wrong some how.

 

[pgpoultry]

Aren't chicks pretty enough without turning them into lurid shades of pink, green, orange etc?

 

[billiejo21]

People who do it for identification of the chick inject the egg before hatching...I think I read about it in Storey's, had a pretty detailed description of how to do it. People who hatch large numbers of different breeds of chicks in one bator assign each breed a color...obviously only works for light colored chicks! Not something I plan on attempting!!!