Birds don’t sense “heat” or spice. A famous chef* on the East Coast feeds his chickens hot red peppers. The characteristics (color, flavor, heat) of the pepper go into the egg/yolk, without the bird knowing a thing.
*Dan Barber “Blue Hill Farm”
zigaliciousone
I keep saying that when birds figure out these “new” plants everyone are growing now are super tasty, more and more people are going to lose crops to them.
llzaknafeinll
I feed my chickens any and all pepper discards and they love them! Also, if you’re having problems with squirrels or rodents getting into your bird feed buy pepper flakes and add them to your feed they will quit real fast and it will give your eggs that real vibrant Instagram yokes you see.
AnalogueOutlaw
Brushy Tailed Possum (Australia) ate all my reapers.
ImportantRevenue3777
If you feed hens enough reapers with active capsaicin make it to the egg and make it spicy for us?
flannelmaster9
Birds can’t taste spice. Or at least that’s what the girl I dated in college said about her pet parrot
sticky_banana
Birds don’t have the correct receptors for capsaicin
Mark_Incorporated
Man I’d hate for that cardinal to shit in my eye
Lamar_Moore
Like everyone else said, birds can’t taste spices. My chickens have invaded my garden before and ate all my peppers.
WowThatsRelevant
Everyone has said it already that birds don’t taste spice. But just to add a little tidbit of info onto this, if you coat some bird seed in spices like cayenne powder, it’ll deter squirrels from stealing it.
Bymmijprime
And a phoenix was born
dumber-with-numbers
Hopefully you’ll get some wild reapers in the neighborhood. Probably just seeds on your car, but here’s hoping.
FireStompingRhino
Birds mouth cant taste it sure but I bet its butt hole will surely feel the fire.
mattogeewha
That’s why they’re red
Upset_Consequence_52
Try some small red Christmas ornaments, preferably plastic so they’ll get disappointed and maybe move on so they don’t ruin all of em
valmichaelsmith33
We need it’s DNA
UndedMeowth
Birds cannot actually feel capsaicin
TGV_etc
They don’t experience burning from capsaicin, so they don’t even know they’re spicy
Noimnotonacid
I like to think it was a blue jay prior to eating the peppers
ajaxodyssey
Birds are immune to capsicum.
Sandscarab
Some wild reapers will probably grow in your neighborhood now, lol.
SkiSTX
That’s literally what peppers are for!
flockitup
Fuuuuck….. If that bird shits in someone’s eye, gonna be a bad day.
Spicy doesn’t affect birds. I use cayenne pepper in my chicken coupe to keep mites away. Chickens don’t care one bit
Resident_Donkey3136
He’s ready for the Hot Chip Challenge
Overthemoon64
One time i tossed a seagull an organic wedge. He nabbed it thinking it was bread or something and did NOT like it. He had to rinse his mouth out in the sea. Its funny to think an orange would be spicier to birds than red peppers.
Bell-Cautious
highway robbery…
Joe_Golem
Bitds are biologically unable to register the effects of capsaicin.
calvinquisition
As I understand it, this is one of the evolutionary explanations as to why some peppers are hot. Those with capsaicin in them aren’t ingested by small mammals, that can taste the spicy but by birds instead. Birds, having a much larger range than say a squirrel, tend to spread their seeds further and so spicy wins the selfish gene award over non-spicy peppers.
itellyouwhenitsnice
Nice
Loud-Fig-3701
That’s how they stay red
Mindless_Jicama8728
Birds don’t have capsaicin receptors. They can eat all the spice.
Dr-Dendro
It’s because of the way they are…..
meco27
He or she gonna have fire coming out its ass
nallajodu
Nitro boost in flight!
DryPeanut420
It’s going to poop those seeds out and you might start seeing wild reapers growing locally on the side of the street.
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So this is why we have angry birds
Birds don’t sense “heat” or spice. A famous chef* on the East Coast feeds his chickens hot red peppers. The characteristics (color, flavor, heat) of the pepper go into the egg/yolk, without the bird knowing a thing.
*Dan Barber “Blue Hill Farm”
I keep saying that when birds figure out these “new” plants everyone are growing now are super tasty, more and more people are going to lose crops to them.
I feed my chickens any and all pepper discards and they love them! Also, if you’re having problems with squirrels or rodents getting into your bird feed buy pepper flakes and add them to your feed they will quit real fast and it will give your eggs that real vibrant Instagram yokes you see.
Brushy Tailed Possum (Australia) ate all my reapers.
If you feed hens enough reapers with active capsaicin make it to the egg and make it spicy for us?
Birds can’t taste spice. Or at least that’s what the girl I dated in college said about her pet parrot
Birds don’t have the correct receptors for capsaicin
Man I’d hate for that cardinal to shit in my eye
Like everyone else said, birds can’t taste spices. My chickens have invaded my garden before and ate all my peppers.
Everyone has said it already that birds don’t taste spice. But just to add a little tidbit of info onto this, if you coat some bird seed in spices like cayenne powder, it’ll deter squirrels from stealing it.
And a phoenix was born
Hopefully you’ll get some wild reapers in the neighborhood. Probably just seeds on your car, but here’s hoping.
Birds mouth cant taste it sure but I bet its butt hole will surely feel the fire.
That’s why they’re red
Try some small red Christmas ornaments, preferably plastic so they’ll get disappointed and maybe move on so they don’t ruin all of em
We need it’s DNA
Birds cannot actually feel capsaicin
They don’t experience burning from capsaicin, so they don’t even know they’re spicy
I like to think it was a blue jay prior to eating the peppers
Birds are immune to capsicum.
Some wild reapers will probably grow in your neighborhood now, lol.
That’s literally what peppers are for!
Fuuuuck….. If that bird shits in someone’s eye, gonna be a bad day.
So that’s how phoenixes are born…
Awe cute he’s eating strawberries *looks at title* oh nvm he’s gonna explode.
Spicy doesn’t affect birds. I use cayenne pepper in my chicken coupe to keep mites away. Chickens don’t care one bit
He’s ready for the Hot Chip Challenge
One time i tossed a seagull an organic wedge. He nabbed it thinking it was bread or something and did NOT like it. He had to rinse his mouth out in the sea. Its funny to think an orange would be spicier to birds than red peppers.
highway robbery…
Bitds are biologically unable to register the effects of capsaicin.
As I understand it, this is one of the evolutionary explanations as to why some peppers are hot. Those with capsaicin in them aren’t ingested by small mammals, that can taste the spicy but by birds instead. Birds, having a much larger range than say a squirrel, tend to spread their seeds further and so spicy wins the selfish gene award over non-spicy peppers.
Nice
That’s how they stay red
Birds don’t have capsaicin receptors. They can eat all the spice.
It’s because of the way they are…..
He or she gonna have fire coming out its ass
Nitro boost in flight!
It’s going to poop those seeds out and you might start seeing wild reapers growing locally on the side of the street.
Well that explains the red Mohawks.
Double Carolina bud
The explains my car windshield in the morning.