Trouble in Paradise

**lvpets2002** · 04-02-2007, 05:35 PM

OMG they came from Texas.. I think it is illegal here.. The Pet Store Owner should have known ya think?? How so bad for those wittle babies.. Glad all doing ok..

**critter crazy** · 04-02-2007, 05:51 PM

Some people are just plain stupid!!! It just disgusts me!!! I love my chickens, and would never think that Dying would be cool!!

**Zippy** · 04-02-2007, 06:07 PM

That is horriable

**Blue_Frog** · 04-02-2007, 06:28 PM

The dying trend that makes me sad is dying fish -- mostly that is done by injecting the fish with dye with a needle, or by soaking them in acids so that their protective layer comes off and then dipping them in dye, or using lasers. Quite a lot of fish die this way, and many more die from the cancers they get later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_fish

**Zippy** · 04-02-2007, 06:49 PM

Blue_Frog I have heard about fish dying on my betta bourd and have seen a blood parrot cichlid dyed with a I *heart* u for Valintines day.

**buttercup132** · 04-02-2007, 07:16 PM

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Isn't it just the same as dying a dog or cat? And like the owner said it just food colouring...as long as it dosent get in their eyes or on their beak.

**critter crazy** · 04-02-2007, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by buttercup132

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Isn't it just the same as dying a dog or cat? And like the owner said it just food colouring...as long as it dosent get in their eyes or on their beak.

As far as I can see, and pet store owner that purchases Birds like this are only out for the money! People see these, and just have to buy them for their kids, and then the birds suffer, and end up in shelters or die! Because it was an easter gift, and the fad soon fades!! And for the record, who the heck would dye any animal! Cat, Dog, Bird or Fish! There is no point! Poor babys!

**Sophist** · 04-03-2007, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by buttercup132

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Isn't it just the same as dying a dog or cat? And like the owner said it just food colouring...as long as it dosent get in their eyes or on their beak.

It would be a bigger deal/more likely to be illegal than coloring a dog or cat's fur because it actually is closer to dyed fish... while the embryo is still in the egg (usually towards the end of the second week after a live embryo can be seen by holding the egg up to a strong light source) it is INJECTED with dye. Break the shell, inject the embryo, slap on some iodine and back into the incubator. If you do it later than the second week after a viable embryo is detected, then multiple injections are required.

When I used to do flocks of chicks and ducklings that I showed in fairs and such, I would put little dabs of food dye on them to differentiate them. I see nothing wrong with coloring a chick at all.

But dyeing a chick requires compromising its' shell, injecting it with a foreign substance for cosmetic purposes, and pretty much assuring that it is going to be an impulse buy, probably for a small child's easter present, by someone who has not thought through the logistics of keeping chickens.

**Argranade** · 04-03-2007, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by buttercup132

I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Isn't it just the same as dying a dog or cat? And like the owner said it just food colouring...as long as it dosent get in their eyes or on their beak.

It can make them very sick because there so young, they probably won't last too long if that dye is not removed, those chicks will want to preen them selfs and in doing so they can inject food colouring into there system.

Food colouring can make birds very sick, that's also why you should never dye water red to attrack humming birds because it can make them very sick.