I went to check on the chickens and was quite alarmed to see that many of them had red in their beard feathers. What the heck? Was someone bleeding and they all had a peck? Chickens will peck at anything red, especially blood. I started to look at each of them for injuries.

No. I had given them a watermelon end, and the bowl was a little deeper than usual. They had watermelon beards. Ha.