Oh Craigslist, You Amuse Me So!

[dan26552]

Ohhhh wowwwwww...

I'm SOOOOOOO doing THAT!

Lol my dog just went into hiding

It is pretty cool.

 

[NickyKnack]

Looks like a sure fire way to give a dog self esteem problems.

Dogs don't possess certain cones in the retina that process color. Hence why they are color blind.

 

[User395221]

I've been putting my efforts into trying to give my do (westie) a decent-looking haircut. Now I realise I should have been more inventive

The girl who comes to help with my animals has her hair cut short on one side and her dad does fancy patterns with the clippers. I told him he should do my dog, I think she'd look good with a sort of damask look, but I was only kidding. It's hard enough to get her to stay still to get her normal haircut, I don't think she'd go in for anything more creative.

 

[Pyxis]

Watch how they do it.

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This is extra awful. In my post I was meaning about dying adult silkies like the ones in the ad. That's done probably more like how they dye poodles, and I'm sure the poodles aren't thrilled with being dyed either. The dyed chick thing is just horrendous.

There is actually a way to dye chicks that doesn't hurt them, but you have to be very skilled as it involves putting a small needle through the shell at a certain point of incubation and injecting a small amount of food coloring. When done right, it doesn't hurt the chick and they hatch with colored down, which fades away in a few weeks.

What you posted though is what they do to extra male chicks around Easter that they can't sell. Then they ship them off to pet stores or feed stores like that. So really they don't care if they live or die because this way at least they will sell them. Otherwise they would put them live through a grinder - which is how most hatcheries deal with unwanted male chicks. Some, like Meyer, gas them, which is slightly better at least. All in all it's usually a bad end for them either way.

Dying them however is at least illegal in some places now, which is a step in the right direction.

Dogs don't possess certain cones in the retina that process color. Hence why they are color blind.

They do actually see some color, but not as much as we can. That might be what you meant but I wanted to link this for others

Fun fact, most birds can see ultraviolet light. Now imagine what a peahen sees when she's being courted by a peacock. That display in ultraviolet must be crazy. My dad scared the crap out of my parrot the other day when he was wearing a neon orange shirt and walked in to say hi to him. Poor Fizz was not having it and did not like that shirt at all. That's another reason dying them isn't great - they definitely can see what color they are because they have better color vision than us plus they can see ultraviolet so pick the right (or should I say wrong) substance to dye them with and they will literally glow to other birds, which could make them victims of bullying in a flock or worse yet glow like a beacon to birds of prey. In fact the off color itself might lead to bullying regardless of if what you used to dye reflects UV light. Plus to me it's something that the bird probably doesn't like that you're putting them through for your own amusement, and while it might not physically harm them I just don't like that.

The fact that they see UV though is very cool, at least to me. It led scientists to realize that a lot of birds we thought were sexually monomorphous aren't at all, we just can't see the difference. To the birds though it's clear as day.

 

[Ravynscroft]

They ALL LAY EGGS...

 

[Pyxis]

They ALL LAY EGGS...

Suuureee they do! Lol. This was my find of the evening:

So they're pullets and future hens but they're also unsexed? Um, what? Also, you don't get white chicks by crossing a barred rock with a red chicken.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Suuureee they do! Lol. This was my find of the evening:

So they're pullets and future hens but they're also unsexed? Um, what? Also, you don't get white chicks by crossing a barred rock with a red chicken.

That is great! Future hens, pullets, unsexed!!

 

[shortgrass]

They ALL LAY EGGS...

Hey yeah I'll take that whole pen of...wow how many egg laying roosters are crammed in that little pen anyway?!?!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hey yeah I'll take that whole pen of...wow how many egg laying roosters are crammed in that little pen anyway?!?!

lol... I like how they lined up all nice, front and center...

 

[shortgrass]

lol... I like how they lined up all nice, front and center...

Ha-ha, "pick me pick me, I'll be a good boy-er-girl! I lay eggs!!"