We’ve always thought that 1) buying baby chicks – cute as they are – for little children’s transitory enjoyment on Easter is kind of cruel and 2) colored chicks get to be that way because they are sprayed with dye after they are hatched.
We don’t know if you agree with me or not on point number one, but we guess we were wrong on the second part: chicks can actually get colored by injection of dyes a couple of hours before hatching time!
The scanned article above came from a 1947 Mechanix Illustrated, but it seems like the technique is alive and well today: Link
via Neatorama
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