Insane baby chicken Easter dyeing madness!

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I bet they don't keep quiet when you try and hide them under cushions for Easter morning hunts, though. And hard boiling them would seem counterproductive.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus...

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

this was done regularly in the 50s (and earlier I presume).

My mom received one every Easter. But then of course they'd get big and become ugly, smelly chickens. She still loved them though.

One year, on a long summer car trip, they stopped by the side of the road for a picnic. When they were almost finished with the cold fried chicken my young mother was informed of the fate of her most recent Easter chick.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Now them's good eating!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Giving birds as Easter gifts is WRONG, people. If they're ducks, they usually get abandoned in a public pond somewhere, where IF they survive, they grow up with gangs of other cast-off and misfit ducks. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's actually faintly sad -- these ducks are insufficiently socialized and never go anywhere without the other cast-offs, and since they're weird they never get to mate.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(Let me point out the obvious before everyone else does -- it's like high school! Ha! It's funny!)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/images/rip2.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The dye, which the farm insists does not contain chemicals, is injected into ordinary chicken eggs a few weeks before Easter.

The baby chicks are not hurt, but provide a psychedelic spectacle when they hatch.

Disturbing? Slightly.

Cute? Absolutely!

But this is what really worries me:

"One little boy came with his kindergarten last week and when he was asked how the chick became blue, said it was because it had a blue mother," said Ms Burney.

He asks a perfectly reasonable question and this is the response he gets from the teacher? And people wonder why test scores keep getting lower and lower?

― Travelin' Smith, Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

PUNK CHIX ROOL!!!!

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If they're ducks, they usually get abandoned in a public pond somewhere, where IF they survive, they grow up with gangs of other cast-off and misfit ducks. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's actually faintly sad -- these ducks are insufficiently socialized and never go anywhere without the other cast-offs,

I'll cut you in for half when Pixar picks the screenplay up.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 10 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I saw this on the news as I was flicking channels yesterday. And I thought "No, it can't be true". But I'm glad it is true. How adorable.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 10 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"One little boy came with his kindergarten last week and when he was asked how the chick became blue, said it was because it had a blue mother," said Ms Burney.

He asks a perfectly reasonable question and this is the response he gets from the teacher? And people wonder why test scores keep getting lower and lower?

read a bit more carefully my dear, the boy was asked this question and he responded that the chick had a blue mother.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 10 April 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

But how did he find out it had a blue mother?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 10 April 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Kids say the darndest things

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 10 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

aja, it didn't have a blue mother.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

read a bit more carefully my dear, the boy was asked this question and he responded that the chick had a blue mother.

my bad

my brain tends to disregard the word 'was'.... or at least that's the excuse i'm goin' with

― Travelin' Smith, Saturday, 10 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

chicken segregation

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

aja, it didn't have a blue mother.

I know that. I was just wondering if someone at the farm told the little boy the chick had a blue mother.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, it had a green mother, instead. Life's funny that way.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Sunday, 11 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

So, was her other chick yellow then?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 11 April 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

although I'm being quite pedantic here let me state clearly what that quote implied: the boy using his natural ability to logically reason out the world around him assumed the mother had to be blue.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

You sure someone at the farm didn't tell him the chick had a blue mother? Maybe they explained to the children that they put dye in the eggs and he wasn't listening?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*slaps forehead*

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, have you ever noticed that children often have difficulty understanding things, and will concoct silly explanations for them?

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, sometimes. But usually, when you're really young, you'll ask "why" something is the way it is.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

'It had a blue mother' is not a silly explanation. It's a pretty rational one, given the evidence.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

It's certainly better than "because God made it that way"

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Recessive genes people!

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Gene who?
</compulsary joke>

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the irony slipped right by you there, cis.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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