@Meanlucario  
cat biology*

@brony-in-denial  
It’s because of bird biology.

Is this why Gallus failed his inspection?

…just in case anyone anywhere is reading this and wondering what we’re talking about, there is a class of chemicals of biological origin called peptides. They are short chains of amino acids. Most biochem textbooks these days say that a string of amino acids is a “protein” if there are fifty or more amino acids linked together and a “peptide” if there are between two and forty-nine. This is an arbitrary definition, of course.
 
Some hormones–chemicals that control certain processes in living things–belong to this family, peptides. Other hormones don’t, like the steroid family of hormones.

@Background Pony #EA06  
Yes, I think peptides are more accurate.

@Background Pony #EE55  
If that were the case birth control pills wouldn’t work. Are you thinking of peptides? Some peptides are hormones and some aren’t, and there are hormones that aren’t peptides.

Aren’t hormones supposed to be proteins that get broken down to amino acids once eaten, and won’t affect the body growth in the end?

“I don’t get it, Smolder. Why are you secretly feeding Gallus mare hormones?”
 
 
“Eh… I don’t know. An experiment, maybe?”
 
 
“That seems a little unethical. Also, what kind of experiment?”
 
 
“Well… I’ve been putting stallion hormones in Sandbar’s food for a while now too.”
 
 
“I was going to wait a week or two, then lock them in a room together and see what happens.”
 
 
“That sounds even worse than I was imagining! I’m not sure I can go along with this.”
 
 
“What if I let you watch with me?”
 
 
“Ok.”

M*re Hormones

This will end in rule 63.

For a second I thought it said No Meat! No Homo!

A what for that burger?

I’m sure this will turn out fine.

Goodbye, chicken nuggets.

@TexasUberAlles  
I mean, it is canonically what they eat  

just eatin’ a big ol’ bug

He’s already a catbird, do you have to make him more of an abomination?

did she plan this?

Eat, so you may become big and not long strong.

No meat!
 
m@re hormones!

Eh, not a big loss on his part.