§ 5-6. Baby chicks, ducklings, and rabbits.  


Latest version.
  • It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, barter or give-away baby chicks, rabbits, ducklings, or other fowl as pets or novelties, whether or not dyed, colored or otherwise artificially treated. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the display or sale of natural chicks or ducklings in proper brooder facilities by hatcheries or stores engaged in the business of selling same to be raised for commercial purposes.

(Code 1977, § 9.126)

State law reference

Baby chicks, MCL 287.161 et seq., MSA 12.471 et seq.; sale of dyed baby chicks, rabbits, ducklings, MCL 752.91 et seq., MSA 12.482(1) et seq.