Halloween is over, so make with the pumpkin!

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AtHomeDaddy

AtHomeDaddy

In the Brooder
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Aug 24, 2008
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I finally got around to moving our (un-carved) Halloween pumpkin off of the front porch today, while I was stringing the Christmas lights outside.

I laid the busted pumpkin in the yard and let my 4 girls go at it. They spent 2 hours picking that sucker clean. I thought i was going to have to put the pumpkin in the coop with them tonight!

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When we bought our pumpkins in October, we bought one for the chickens. They did not really care for it. The other day, I was putting up the Christmas decorations, and figured it was time to remove the pumpkins. I cut one in half and put it out there for the chickens, and by the next morning, they had it down to a thin rind.
Your little ones seem to be enjoying it. It's nice to recycle yard decorations!!
 
I didnt think they would eat pumpkin because it is so hard,, I dont know why!!! They eat everything else.
So I chunked the leftover pumpkins up and stuck it in a roaster pan into the oven for about an hour or two.
The chickens went NUTS over the stuff!!
Nothing left but a thin skin.
 
I made pumpkin soup and gave the rest of the carcass to the chooks, but they didn't go for it. Chickens can be strange sometimes.
 
A day later and the girls are still working on that pumpkin. They moved onto the larger portion and are all four standing inside of it, pecking away!
 
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My girls reacted the same way. "What's that dumb orange-lookin' thing you so ungraciously plopped in our run????"
 
I put our carved pumpkin in the run. They devoured it! All that was lwft was a thin skin too! It is funny how one flock loves something and someone elses flock thinks "What makes you think that I am going to eat that!!??"
 
I put a whole pumpkin in my run and the girls pecked a hole in the side and hollowed it out! My friends chickens wouldn't touch the one she gave them, even when she cut it up. They are funny!
 

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