Can Chickens eat pumpkin

[rdranch]

Yes that goes for all squash. I will let many of our summer squash grow to large pumpkin size and feed them the same way. They go for the seeds first and then pick at the rest until there is only the skin left.

They can also be stored like pumpkins as long as the skin is hard like a pumpkin.

 

[Booswalia]

My chickens weren't so keen on the pumpkin but they love it as a serving dish for other treats...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=255299

 

[faykokoWV]

I can hardly wait until halloween is over and all the pumpkins go on sale.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Here is a grreat page that Buff Hooligans made about chickens treats.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2593-Treats_Chart

 

[redhen]

Yup! love this time of year! i buy up the pumpkins and freeze them for later in the year....my girls looove pumpkin.. espically frozen pumpkin pieces in the hot summer.

 

[harrisville chicken]

None of mine (EE, Black Stars, cochin banties) will touch it. They reluctantly pick scratch off it. But no pumpkin for them.

 

[Amethyste]

My other flock hated them with a passion....I only have 2 left from that original flock. Now that they have the babies tho that they are raising, they think the pumpkins are the bestest thing ever!

They annihilated it. Only word I can think of to describe it....it was a war zone lol

 

[Grammahen]

Gone like lightning! Yum Yum

 

[jerseygirl1]

I bet..........


You could slice in half and use it for a bowl full of oatmeal................

 

[HippieChickens]

.