This is cruel and evil! These people really need to find something else to do to celebrate Easter!
Dyeing Baby Chicks: OK or Oh No?
SodaHead Living
2012/04/03 16:10:14
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Everybody loves baby chicks on Easter, but do they really need to be dyed in pastel colors to make them even cuter than they already are? Poultry farmers say it's harmless when nontoxic dye is used, but animal rights advocates are against the practice, which is banned in about half the states and some municipalities, The New York Times reports.
In fact, in Florida last month, the Legislature passed a bill to overturn a 45-year-old ban on dyeing animals. "Humane societies are overflowing with these animals after Easter every year," Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida told the Times. "This law has protected thousands of animals from neglect and abuse, and it shouldn’t be lifted on the whim of one dog groomer who wants to dye poodles purple."
As far as baby chicks go, the dye is either injected in the incubating egg or sprayed on the hatchling. The color lasts only a few weeks: it comes off as chicks shed their fluff and the feathers grow in a normal color, the Times reports. Animal rights advocates say the dyeing experience is stressful for the birds, and that baby chicks shouldn't be sold when they're under four weeks old. Do you think it's OK to dye baby chicks?
For everyone that's saying it's cruel or unnatural, do any of you dye your hair? Pluck your eyebrows? Wear nail polish? Get a tattoo or a piercing? You're changing your appearance by doing so but that's not abuse. Neither is dying an animals fur or feathers. It's a non-toxic dye that comes off as the chicks shed their fluff and their feathers grow in at their normal color.
It's not harming them so it's not ABUSE. ABUSE of an animal is when it's put in a cage for long periods of time, depriving it of food, water, attention or letting it live in it's own feces or beating it. So unless you're an animal telepath and can literally speak to animals and hear them say, "I hate it when you dye me green", shut up. If you want to b!tch about animal cruelty, do it when there's something that NEEDS attention. Not something as trivial as this. God! I'm in the mood to troll today!
But seriously people, dying an animals fur is stupid and I think baby chicks are much cuter their natural color. Pink and green chicks look weird.
But they sure do look funny when their feathers start coming in.
1 Mix the nontoxic dye with water and stir until the water is fully colored. Use cups or small bowls for separate colors.
2 Rinse the chickens with distilled water to remove dirt or bacteria. This makes the dye hold better.
3 Dip the chickens into the colored water up to their necks and hold them there for at least five seconds. Remove them from the water and shake them gently to remove excess dye.
4 Daub their heads gently with the paintbrush or sponge. Avoid getting the dye into their eyes or beak because it's uncomfortable even though it's nontoxic.
5 Separate the chick for 15 to 30 minutes, or until dry, then repeat with the other baby chickens.
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The other thing is does it elicit a "racist" or "species" response and they start pecking each other at some point?
One poor fiftyish woman clerk at the grocery had so litte left she had to paint something on to not look freaky.
Not trying to go too critical on you. Just think it would be better for you mentally to look on the positive side of what you are.
Besides, if mother nature isn't screaming while you do that, aren't you?
If your brows are no thichker than this girls you're well in the normal range.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I drank coffee to improve my circulation, which you could tell helped because it caused extra hair growth. Now though I've high blood pressure so had to give up coffee.
I don't agree with coloring your dog/cat's fur, and I don't agree with coloring a baby chicken either!
Nature got it right the first time - stop this crap.
It like that baby cayman you get when you are a kid... They are cool while their young eating mice... They do grow up though.
How many people get tattoos?
How many people get holes poked in them?
The chicks will be just fine, as they have been for decades.