Hot pepper and ducks

[veronicasmom]

I was thinking that maybe I'd set the goats up. I would lock the ducks out and leave a bowl of food with the pepper seed in the shed so the goats could get into it. Maybe if I do that once or five times, they might decide duck food is disgusting.
Now I just have to make sure the pepper seeds are okay for the goats to get..............I really bet they just smell them and won't even eat them, they are pretty picky about some stuff.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Omg, if it could solve keeping my dogs out of the duck food it would be amazing!

How about out of the duck poop? lol sorry I couldn't help myself.

 

[needlessjunk]

How about out of the duck poop? lol sorry I couldn't help myself.

Oh my dogs just love the ducks! Poop is just as good as their food. The only problem is that my coonhound is sensitive to corn and her poops are horrible if she gets the duck food. Otherwise I wouldnt care as much. My dogs do clean off the patio so I don't ever have to step in the duck poop, lol!

 

[dheltzel]

Birds lack the receptors needed to sense capsaicin (the hot in peppers). Mammals have them in abundance. The wild pepper plants from Central America use that to their advantage. They want birds to eat their seed pods because their digestive system will not digest the seeds, allowing them to transport the seeds and deposit them in a little package of fertilizer

Hot peppers are fed to parrots all the time, and some chicken keepers feed them to encourage egg laying in winter.

So yes, hot peppers are perfectly safe for your ducks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh my dogs just love the ducks! Poop is just as good as their food. The only problem is that my coonhound is sensitive to corn and her poops are horrible if she gets the duck food. Otherwise I wouldnt care as much. so I don't ever have to step in thMy dogs do clean off the patioe duck poop, lol!

Mine also keep the driveway clear of booby traps [poop left behind] you gotta love those dogs for the way they protect us.

thankfully my flock is fenced off from the dogs as far as food goes. but they get the food through the poop. recycled.

 

[seachainanmadra]

Birds lack the receptors needed to sense capsaicin (the hot in peppers). Mammals have them in abundance. The wild pepper plants from Central America use that to their advantage. They want birds to eat their seed pods because their digestive system will not digest the seeds, allowing them to transport the seeds and deposit them in a little package of fertilizer

Hot peppers are fed to parrots all the time, and some chicken keepers feed them to encourage egg laying in winter.

So yes, hot peppers are perfectly safe for your ducks.

Out of curiosity, are there any peppers that would be so hot as to cause a problem? I've added crushed red pepper to my girls' feed earlier, and one of the ladies laid her first egg two days later! I'd like mix pepper in regularly as I'm impatiently awaiting eggs from five other girls. I've got a ton of dried pepper from my garden sitting around, but the two types I have in abundance are Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper, formerly the world's hottest pepper) and some ornamental peppers that turned out to have a poor flavor but a ton of heat. I know they can't sense the heat, but could the superhot peppers cause any issue with their digestive system? I could only handle the Bhuts with two layers of gloves before they were dried, but drying did tone them down quite a bit.

 

[dheltzel]

My understanding is that they have no receptors for capsaicin anywhere in their bodies, unlike us, who apparently have receptors all over the our bodies. We have an inate fear of this because of our own experience, but if they can't taste a little, they couldn't really taste a lot either.

Who knows if they might store some and it might show up in trace amounts in their meat or eggs. It could be regular amounts result in levels undetectable to us, but that high amounts might be detectable. Pre-spiced eggs!

 

[Miss Lydia]

My understanding is that they have no receptors for capsaicin anywhere in their bodies, unlike us, who apparently have receptors all over the our bodies. We have an inate fear of this because of our own experience, but if they can't taste a little, they couldn't really taste a lot either.

Who knows if they might store some and it might show up in trace amounts in their meat or eggs. It could be regular amounts result in levels undetectable to us, but that high amounts might be detectable. Pre-spiced eggs!

Might also cause runny poop too. that can happen to humans if eating too many. I do like the idea of pre spiced eggs though.

 

[needlessjunk]

Ugh, I got so mad at my dogs because they ate so much duck food the had the runs all over my house yesterday! I'm sick, taking care of 2 kids and cleaning up dog poop. It was a horrible day. So today I baited my dogs with duck food covered with red peppers. It did nothing to the dogs. I got mad and dumped the whole bottle of peppers in and it was half duck food hald peppers. Guess what?!? The dogs still ate ALL of it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ugh, I got so mad at my dogs because they ate so much duck food the had the runs all over my house yesterday! I'm sick, taking care of 2 kids and cleaning up dog poop. It was a horrible day. So today I baited my dogs with duck food covered with red peppers. It did nothing to the dogs. I got mad and dumped the whole bottle of peppers in and it was half duck food hald peppers. Guess what?!? The dogs still ate ALL of it.

just goes to show you digs don't care if it burns the inside of their mouths or not if it's edible they will eat it.