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Brightly colored chicks feed in a pen at Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Palmer, Alaska, Thursday, April 8, 2004. The hatchery sells a few hundred of the colorful birds for two weeks prior to Easter each year. Owner Anthony Schmidt says a non-toxic dye is injected into the eggs of a variety of breeds of chickens before they are hatched, which causes their down to be colored. The birds natural coloring returns as they grow feathers. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester)