Canned pumpkin pie filling

[Kajunbanty]

Amydzek, to cook a pumpkin you just cut it in half, remove the seeds and stuff, the chickens will love that part raw. then peel and cut up in smaller chunks. Put in a pot with just a little water (1/2 cup) to get it started then let it cook down on a med. fire. Stir every so often till it cooks down to a mush.

 

[justmeinflorida]

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"Oysters"! You give em oysters?! I live where they harvest the darn things and a dozen on the half shell still costs more than I'm willing to pay.

I gotta say, them is some spoiled chickens...

What the poster meant was crushed oyster shell...chickens love it.

 

[Oregon Blues]

To cook the big jack-o-lantern pumpkins, I cut them into large chunks and put them in a roasting pan with about an inch of water in the bottom. Put the lid on and bake 350 degrees until fork tender.

At that point, you could cool and feed to the chickens. I scrape the meat off the rind and measure it into one cup amounts, place that into baggies and freeze.

The seeds get cleaned, coated with a lot of salt and then baked just until the salt is dried. My people family eats those. I'd have an armed rebellion on my hands if I fed those to the birds.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Good garden o' peas, last year they had news of there being shortage of the stuff. My DD wanted us to send her some to TX. I would expect to keep for a while plus you can make stuff other than pies. Like pumpkin bread and cake and just other stuff.

Now if you insist on feeding it to the chickens? I'd say if you can eat it so can they. Just not tons, and tons of it. Mix it with scratch or other stuff that they eat.

I meant to grow pumpkins to store for the chickens over the winter but forgot. Sometimes I give the squash, which is what pumpkins are really.

 

[Judy]

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I do it much the same way but in the microwave. I think it takes around 5 or 6 minutes. I watch it and test it with a fork.

 

[goobhen]

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"Oysters"! You give em oysters?! I live where they harvest the darn things and a dozen on the half shell still costs more than I'm willing to pay.

I gotta say, them is some spoiled chickens...

Normally I do not do this, but I was cleaning out my pantry and the pumpkin & oysters were out of date enough that my DH would not eat them. I opened the cans & everything looked & smelled fine, so my hens need extra protein, ie, had too many roos and their feathers are gone from their backs. So I only had one can of wet cat food, and I was looking for tuna, but found the oysters......it was hard to give them the oysters, but just too old for humans!! I can hardly stand the smell of the canned cat food!

I normally buy whole pumpkins, halve them and the chickens love them! So far the only pumpkin I have seen in the store was too big, I like the smaller ones, easier to handle...

 

[patti'speeps]

Pumpkins are my birds favorite treat right now as well. We planted a large pumpkin patch just for that reason. We did the jack-0-lantern variety so they aren't too big to cut for them. I love the idea of cooking and freezing extra for the winter. Our patch will be even bigger next year. Anything to help offset the cost of feed is a good deal in my book. Most of our garden was planted with the birds in mind, lol.

 

[goobhen]

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"Oysters"! You give em oysters?! I live where they harvest the darn things and a dozen on the half shell still costs more than I'm willing to pay.

I gotta say, them is some spoiled chickens...

What the poster meant was crushed oyster shell...chickens love it.

No, I didn't mean crushed oyster shells, canned oysters. I give them crushed oyster shells in their food. I am trying to increase their protein as a few have some issues with their feathers. The po asked if you could give canned pumpkin, and I said yes as I cleaned out my pantry and had expired cans of Libby's pumpkin and a can of oysters. I was really looking for tuna, but my DH ate it! He will not eat oyster period, and not expired pumpkin. I did not want to waste them, looked okay, smelled okay, so the chickens got them. Ate it all in less than 15 minutes!!

theresa

 

[cjb]

Pumpkin seeds are good for worming the natural way. So are the seeds from yellow squash. A lot of salt will kill your chick. I feed them fresh pumpkin when it is out there but like to buy and freeze in vacumn suctioned bags to feed about every six weeks.

 

[yinzerchick]

I miss living in the North East this time of year! No huge quantiities of pumpkins down here...

"Oysters"! You give em oysters?!

I've cooked up shrimp and gave it to mine! Our neighbor gave me a bag of frozen that the "best by" date had expired. After some thought, I decided I wasn't willing to eat my neighbors garbage, and I did indeed cook them up and feed them to the chickens, and they loved them!! I didn't however put in any shrimp boil, I didn't make little shrimp cocktails either, and no cocktail sauce. (I did pull off the tails, but didn't de-vein them)

My dad teased me about that, and said next time I'm throwing shrimp out to the chickens to give him a call, he'd like to come over and get some too!

He'd have a good fight on his hands, like I said, they loved them!​