There is a book waiting to be written about the art of chicken dyeing. The "Fantasy Irl" blog (www.fantasyirl.net/blog/2010/01/02/pink-chickens/) has several photographs of pink chickens and "Amanda" writes: In Bali, apparently there are rare pink chickens, supposedly they are not dyed, although some people say they are dyed as babies, either way they are really cute. I like to believe that they are real.Comments included:
-I read in someone�s blog that they rub this pink dye on them to prevent the hawks from swooping down and snatching them. Man, it was a funny sight to see a bunch of pink chickens walking around!
-At the fair this year, some 4-H club kids dyed their weird looking silky chickens (the chicken version of an angora cat), with various flavors of Kool-Aid drink mixes. There was a pink one (pink lemonade), a purple one (grape), a green one (lime), and an orange one (orange). We were asked to smell the purple one, and it did indeed smell like grape drink. This dye wears off in a day or so.
Of course we have more questions than answers: Is there a rare species of pink Balinese chicken? Were the silky chickens in this picture given the Kool-Aid treatment? How well should you know someone before asking to smell their chicken?
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