505.12 COLORING RABBITS OR BABY POULTRY; SALE OR DISPLAY OF POULTRY.

   (a)    No person shall dye or otherwise color any rabbit or baby poultry, including, but not limited to, chicks and ducklings. No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, raffle or give away any rabbit or baby poultry which has been dyed or otherwise colored. No poultry younger than four weeks of age may be sold, given away or otherwise distributed to any person in lots of less than three. Stores, shops, vendors and others offering young poultry for sale or other distribution shall provide and operate brooders or other heating devices that may be necessary to maintain poultry in good health, and shall keep adequate food and water available to the poultry at all times.

   (b)    Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

(Ord. 27-00. Passed 5-1-00.)