Jeeze, you are awfully sensitive. Didn't you notice the ;) in my 'nomination' comment?
It was meant as a bit of humor. I see over sixty posts - a number of which appear to be people taking your first warning to heart.
My wife is always 'announcing' stuff she reads on FB or some such...
You said the bowl was under the coop and the rain that got into it must have run off the roof into a bowl that had been sitting under there for quite a while.
You admitted 'it was hardly Scientific,' so there's that mea culpa. Given this effort you went through to confirm this Black Rubber Bowl...