During a holiday when I was a fry , I learned that seagulls were nicknamed “ rats with wings . ” It would be many more twelvemonth before I learned that all birds are scavenger or foragers . On that holiday , my dad sprinkled hot sauce onto a French fry and bewilder it out of the car window to a tap seagull . The pitiful seagull lose its voice .
It ’s that memory I revisited when I wrote a post here about the suspicious practice of adding hot pepper flakes to wimp provender to entice ovulation in point - of - ballad frier or declining old hens .
Adding hot peppers to my poulet provender does n’t come in to my mind when my little girl slow up down production — I think they merit the break — but I did rethink their leeway for capsaicin when I walked out to my jalapeño flora to see fruit peck to nub with exposed seed . The plant have continued to produce too many for me to practice , so there were plenitude to share . Just then , my Easter Egger joined me , leaping and beak to pass the mellow peppers .
Rachel Hurd Anger
My land conditions and the climate here in Louisville , Ky. , must be everlasting for growing black pepper so hot they ’re intolerable . I honestly can not eat them . I grow the Piper nigrum for my dad , and I mail them sporadically by the bagful . If unacceptably hot peppers were my end , I ’d be thrill . But it ’s not , so the chickens consume them , and now no capsicum is leave behind . The plenty be intimate them !
I ’d considered that chicken must not have the single receptor that discover capsaicin , but what about the muted seagull ? Can birds taste it or not ?
Avian species , in fact , do have the sensory receptor for capsaicin just like mammals . It ’s called TRPV1 , which is responsible for detecting some other pain sensational stimulation , too . Whether the sense organ is activate in a specie find out if that species will taste the “ hot ” in peppers . Some birds , like the seagull , have an activated receptor , but others , like the chicken , do not .
mammalian with sensitive TRPV1 sense organ , like rodent and many humans , avoid eating red-hot capsicum pepper plant because they will palpate the pain of the heat . If they do consume them , their digestive system will commonly depict the seeds unviable . However , in birds with inactivated TRPV1 receptor , their digestive systems are able-bodied to pass the raging pepper seeds with viability , successfully spreading the source and help in the plant life ’s replication .
It ’s rumour that capsaicin will kill bacterium , but the call does n’t concord up in survey . However , capsaicin has been shown to disperse bacterium . In ascendence groups , bacterium develop normally , but in capsaicin groups , it force the same amount of bacterium into small , weaker groups . So while capsaicin is n’t a cure for anything , bring pepper flake to a flock ’s diet or growing peppers for chickens could aid them in fight back off bacterial infection . And because chickens ca n’t sample capsaicin , there ’s no reason to worry that feeding hot peppers might spite the flock .
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