Colored chickens as an Easter tradition

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In different parts of the world, Easter surprises with the originality of local traditions. Naturally, the symbolism remains the same: eggs, paska, sweets and candles, but each culture has something unique about the celebration.

For example, in Australia, instead of chocolate rabbits, confectioners make bandicoots, and with the proceeds they support this endangered animal species. This is because traditional rabbits are considered pests in the area and are not popular.

Despite the fact that Christians make up only 2.5 percent of the population of India, Easter festivities are also organized there, especially in the northeastern states. These are carnivals with street plays, songs and dances; exchange of sweets, flowers and colorful lanterns.

Italian Easter celebrations have a 350-year-old tradition of a cart being loaded with fireworks and set off. It symbolizes peace and a good year. And just south of Florence is the city of Panicale, where a big celebration takes place the day after Easter: the localsvillagers gather for a competition and roll huge wheels of cheese around the perimeter of the village.

In France (in Hauks) it is customary to serve a giant omelet in the main square of the city. It is made from over 4,500 eggs and can feed up to 1,000 people. In the UK, games are held for the strength of boiled eggs, in Greece people throw pots, pans and other earthenware out of windows, which marks the beginning of spring, in Poland it is customary to pour water over them, in Norway it is customary to read crime novels. One of the interesting features of Easter in the USA is colored chickens.

American tradition

This happens every Easter Sunday: next to chocolate bunnies, egg-shaped jelly beans and green plastic grass in a basket of sweets, many children find fluffy and sometimes colored chickens. While Florida recently lifted a ban on the practice of dyeing chicks, creativity still clashes with the animal rights group.

In most cases, these "human gifts" end up in shelters run by the Humane Society of the United States. However, unlike rabbits, chicks turn into chickens or roosters, which quickly fades their attractiveness.

A humane point of view

Photos of colored chickens - what could be cuter? But pets should be considered companions. But when the likes of Easter chicks turn purple or pink, they take on the role not of family friends, but rather of low-maintenance decorations.attention.

"Anything that encourages people to take animals into their homes without thinking about the long-term consequences will have negative consequences for the animals," wildlife advocates say.

Incubation

It takes twenty-one days to hatch colored chicks in an incubator. The eighteenth of these uses harmless food coloring: the chick is sprayed and placed back in the incubator to dry. After two days, the dye comes off.

From the practice of 2008: an American businessman was selling chicks, always offering buyers to return them if their children get bored (which usually happened). Since that time, there have been fewer and fewer sellers of colored living creatures. Much of this was due to pressure from animal rights activists. Firstly, they argued that dyeing is stressful and unnatural, and secondly, chickens are too young and fragile to be a commodity.

In 2012, a home experiment was conducted. Dr. Kjelland injected duck and chicken embryos with a fluorescent dye used to create ultraviolet tattoos to create chicks in bright neon colors and delight their children at Easter.

Problem

Before you make colored chickens and sell them, you should think: what will happen to them next? Most likely, after a few moments of joy, the chicks will be left in a shoebox with holes or somewhere on the street, without protection and care. Someone returns them back to the seller, and someone doeseats. In general, a sad outcome awaits them, so the tradition of coloring is a thing of the past.

A peculiar way out of this situation is exactly the same coloring, but already adults. Thus, when the paint comes off, people are left with excellent meat. By the way, the idea of colored chickens for Easter has found its alternative for Thanksgiving.