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Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

Chicks are dyed to attract customers and quite popular in many countries during Easter. But in some countries it is increasingly prohibited as using life animals as disposable gifts for small children is considered cruel.

 

Colored chicks.

The unfortunate life of a chick.

 

 

What happens to the 250 million male chicks born to hens in the U.S. egg industry each year?

Along with defective and slow-hatching female chicks, they are trashed as soon as they hatch. Upon breaking out of their shells, instead of being sheltered by a mother’s wings, the newborns are ground up alive, electrocuted, or thrown into trashcans where they slowly suffocate on top of one another, peeping to death while a human foot stomps them down to make more room for more chicks. Because the male chicken of the egg industry cannot lay eggs, and has not been genetically manipulated for profitable meat production, he is of no use to the egg industry. Destruction of unwanted male chicks is a worldwide practice.

 

 

In the Philippines those male "chicks" are a popular street food. They are known as "one day old chicks".

You can see them in my street food series here.

Or they might end as colored chicks and be sold to children. I doubt many survive their ordeal ...