As this happens, the dyed background amid new growing feathers provides a constantly changing pattern, the Web site says. Sometimes the Easter thrill can have an unhappy ending when those who take the brightly-hued fowl home find they are not able to care for them properly. Somebody goes to the store and buys them because they are so cute. Every year somebody brings McDonald some colored chicks when they find they just can't handle them. McDonald says hatcheries sell colored chicks in what is called a straight run, which is mainly rooster chicks.
Roosters are more aggressive than hens and less expensive.
I would not recommend buying them unless people are willing to make the commitment. First the heartbreak in the kids and second me ending up having the rooster until it is big enough to slaughter. McDonald says people need to know how to care for the fragile chicks before taking them home. Some states, like California have laws that makes it illegal to sell or to give away as a sales incentive dyed chicks, rabbits, ducklings or other fowl which have been artificially colored.