Trouble in Paradise

[Whisk_Luva]

Uh excuse me. We all love animals, I dont think its right to say you love them all more than us.

[buttercup132]

Uh excuse me. We all love animals, I dont think its right to say you love them all more than us.

Ya no kidding...

I just thought of something I wanted to say though. Someone (I can't remember who) said if god wanted odd coloured (pink,green,blue etc) animals he would make them those colours. So dose that mean you (who ever said that) don't agree with people dying their hair those colours? It's the same thing.

If this were dangerous to the chicks health, then scientists wouldn't do this to birds of endangered species to track the beginning of their life in the wild.

Please tell me your kidding..What makes you think scientist wouldn't do that? They put animals through torture in testing labs. They could care less if it defects or harms the animal.

I myself am about to start incubating my own chicken eggs for the experience and I would like to dye the chicks because they would look cool.

That it's self says your not a big animal lover like you claim... because it's cool???

[Argranade]

animalluv34, First of all let me tell YOU,

Dying any chick while it's still in the egg could defenitly harm the chick. Disturbing the integrity of the shell and potentially the membrane inside around the chick would not be good at all. Also, it is going to be extremely difficult to put a hole in the shell without cracking the entire shell or puncturing the actual chick inside. I would not try risking a living things life .. would you?

Would you inject food coloring into a baby while it's still the mothers womb?

I dout, so why try it on chicks? because there not human? that's a stupid reason.

In addition, poking holes in the egg shell allows infections to get into the baby chick. (No, it doesn't matter how small the whole is.)

[Sophist]

I have not heard of scientists dyeing wild endangered chicks for the sake of tracking. What would this possibly teach them that simple observation would not? Also, wouldn't dyeing them interefere with the camoflouge effect of many species' baby down? Could you possibly show me some info about these studies? I am genuinely curious as this simply doesn't make sense to me. I would like to know more about it if this is something that is actually beinig utilized.

As far as my reasons for not liking it... I dunno, call me crazy, but in general I am not going to be on board with tampering with fetuses and embryos simply for the sake of coolness. Just one of my silly little hang-ups.

[animalluv34]

ok guys, i'm not actually going to color the chicks i'm going to incubate, I just wanted to see if everyones views on the subject were still the same after the info I presented.

And i didn't mean it to be belittling to you guys about me saying that I love animals more than anyone else, I was just trying to say that I love them very much and would never want anything to happen to them that would be hazardous to their health.

Sophist, I'll try to find some info for you on the internet about the utilization of the studies.

[Sophist]

I would appreciate that, thanks.

I know also that you didn't mean any offense with your comment about loving your animals.