Parrots and Hot Peppers
Quick question. Birds are not supposed to taste the heat in hot peppers, right?
For my boyfriend's dinner he cut up some obscenely hot habaneros (fresh picked from the plant I grew) and he gave a sliver to Gideon, my cockatiel. Gid bit in to it shook his head, like "whoa"! He kept taking bites of it and then shaking his head. I had a sweet bell pepper for him as well which he did not react to. To me that looks like he tasted the heat, but I guess it could be that the non-heat taste was really weird, but I doubt habaneros taste that much different than other peppers.
Has anyone had their parrots maybe react to hot peppers?
For my boyfriend's dinner he cut up some obscenely hot habaneros (fresh picked from the plant I grew) and he gave a sliver to Gideon, my cockatiel. Gid bit in to it shook his head, like "whoa"! He kept taking bites of it and then shaking his head. I had a sweet bell pepper for him as well which he did not react to. To me that looks like he tasted the heat, but I guess it could be that the non-heat taste was really weird, but I doubt habaneros taste that much different than other peppers.
Has anyone had their parrots maybe react to hot peppers?