Yellow alert!!

Micro and Pipette are dead scared of the color yellow. How did we find out?
Well one day we tried feeding them a few petals of a yellow marigold flower...and I kid you not, if my chickens were human, you would totally hear a shriek. And then they both ran far far away grom the harmless petals...

Then one day we tried feeding them food with some turmeric. The two needed time to bond with the food that day, unlike other days where they just gobble up the yummy parts.

Another day, my friend presented them with a yellow ribbon, thinking that they might play with it or something. Instead you could see the two of them hyperventilating and running about with sheer terror.

They were yellow when they were babies...I wonder why the colour scared them!

When they were babies, i would hold them in my hand, and it was winter so I usually wore this yellow sweater. Were they scared even then or did I classically condition them??