Blue Ducks – A Kentucky Law

I love this one, Folks.  Here is the text of the law:

KRS 436.600

No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display, or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have been dyed or colored; nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits; nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give away

baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits, under two (2) months of age in any quantity less than six (6), except that any rabbit weighing three (3) pounds or more may be sold at an age of six (6) weeks. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500.

History: Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch 374, sec 1. –Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 5

The actual wording I found said something about not being able to dye a duckling blue and sell it unless you sell 5 more dyed-blue ducklings to the consumer.  That amuses me.  I can only imagine that Easter is really popular in Kentucky.  From what I can find, this is a state law, which means (in my mind) that some Easter season the entire state was overrun with lonely died chicks and ducklings that were abandoned by their impetuous child owners as soon as the blue and pink die wore off.  It was an epidemic of homeless abandoned barnyard animals – with their true feather root colors showing and just a faded sheen of blue, pink, or green to remind them of the abuse and abandonment they’d suffered.  Shame on you, Kentucky, for getting so caught up in Easter that you caused this law to be created.

photo by Limbo Poet

Of course, that might not be what happened.  What do you think happened?