Silly Rules

Home › Ohio › Ohio Rev. Code 925.62

Ohio · Ohio Rev. Code 925.62

No dyeing rabbits or baby poultry, or selling dyed ones

Quote checked October 14, 2026 Text match only; current legal status and enforcement not verified.

What the law says

“No person, firm, or corporation shall dye or otherwise color any rabbit or baby poultry, including, but not limited to, chicks and ducklings. No person, firm, or corporation 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.”

Penalty

This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the Ohio Revised Code may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.

History note

“Effective: April 7, 2023”

As printed on the official page.

This is the effective date of the section's latest version, not when the rule was first written. The official page doesn't print an earlier history.

In plain English

Our reading

The cited section prohibits coloring rabbits or baby poultry, including chicks and ducklings, and selling, offering, displaying for sale, raffling or giving away colored ones. It also prohibits distributing poultry under four weeks old in lots of fewer than three.

Written by Silly Rules from the quoted text above. It's a plain reading, not legal advice. We haven't researched how courts read this section or how often anyone enforces it.

Code
Ohio Revised Code
Section
Ohio Rev. Code 925.62, “Dying rabbits and chicks”
Topic
Animals
Source
codes.ohio.gov

More laws about animals

More from Ohio

Every quote on this site was matched against its official page on October 14, 2026. Text match only; current legal status and enforcement not verified.