I owned chickens YEARS AGO,( you know when dinosaur tipping was a sport? ) when I was a child for a 4-H project. I've always been a country girl at heart, even when living in town with my ex. I always seemed to find employment either at a swanky stable or a vet's. I'm now working at a small town, small animal vet where my nickname at work happens to be "Chew Toy" because I get a kick outta wrangling evil as sin cats when everyone else runs in terror.
Anywho, I digress. About ten years ago, I was working at a vet's who did small and large animals and his practice was half suburban cats and dogs mostly and the back of it was a farm. He had a small herd of horses and two enclosures with poultry, one had a pond with domestic deer, and chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys and the other a slightly smaller coop with mostly chickens. I and another older woman took care of the poultry once a day.
Well that was the year hubby and I decided to have a salsa garden. We planted a lot of hot peppers and before I knew it, I was over-run with habanero peppers of every color and size. I couldn't GIVE them away fast enough!
Well you know when you have chickens, you give them kitchen scraps. I wanted to see what would happen if I offered the chickens ONE bright yellow habanero pepper. One peck and the hen was bolting around the pen!
It wouldn't try a second bite. Neither would any of the other chickens!
Just thought you might get a cackle outta this story!
Devon aka "Chew Toy"
P.S. Anyone else have a cute story?
Anywho, I digress. About ten years ago, I was working at a vet's who did small and large animals and his practice was half suburban cats and dogs mostly and the back of it was a farm. He had a small herd of horses and two enclosures with poultry, one had a pond with domestic deer, and chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys and the other a slightly smaller coop with mostly chickens. I and another older woman took care of the poultry once a day.
Well that was the year hubby and I decided to have a salsa garden. We planted a lot of hot peppers and before I knew it, I was over-run with habanero peppers of every color and size. I couldn't GIVE them away fast enough!
Well you know when you have chickens, you give them kitchen scraps. I wanted to see what would happen if I offered the chickens ONE bright yellow habanero pepper. One peck and the hen was bolting around the pen!
It wouldn't try a second bite. Neither would any of the other chickens!
Just thought you might get a cackle outta this story!
Devon aka "Chew Toy"
P.S. Anyone else have a cute story?
