Feeding Pumpkin

[melandtodd]

When I give pumpkin to my chickens do I just slice it and give it to them like I do my cantelopes? I cut it into wedges and leave it to them---mostly so there are enough wedges to prevent hoarding and leaving others out. The pumpkin seeds just seem so large to just lay it all out there......

 

[NovaAman]

ya know those pans that you get in your stove, i think its a broiler pan... i just spread the guts out on one of those and put it down... yeah, kinda messy, but, no one gets left out. Or get some of those disposible tin pans so you can spread it out thru a few, and then just pick up and chuck when your done.

great natural wormer by the way.... don't have to throw away eggs.

 

[lorain's fids]

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There was a thread about the pumpkin seed being a natural wormer last week- some agree, some disagree.
But what I do know is that when giving the seeds for worming purposes they have to be raw and either ground or chopped. For my 6 chickens for a serving I give about 1/4 a cup mixed with some plain yogurt--they love it!!

 

[JodyJo]

cut it open and pour it out...they truly don' t need a dish, they eat rocks and dirt....! I was putting my treats in pans, not anymore, they are full grown, now I just scatter what I have.

 

[melandtodd]

Thank you, everyone. I put it out there---sliced to keep the peace----they ate all the seeds and stringy stuff, but not the flesh. Hmmmm...kinda uneventful. hahahaha They ate the seeds and broke them into pieces themselves. I was worried that the seeds were going to be too big.
I read that about the "natural deworming" properties...I was just thinking of the "keeping them busy" properties.

 

[sham30]

I break mine in half and let them do the rest, by the end of the day it is gutted right out

 

[Moonkit]

I'll have to try that.. I cut the top off of a pumpkin and offered it to them.. they pecked a bit at the seeds and scattered them a bit, but that was pretty much it.

 

[sheila3935]

If you bake it, take out the seeds forst then put back in after baking they like the flesh better or at least mine did. When I fed it raw all they ate was the string and seeds.

 

[saladin]

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I feed a lot of pumpkins (3000 lbs last year) and this quote represents how I feed mine.

 

[pinkwindsong]

My girls love cooked squash not raw.. then I do also give them the raw squash innards back in the cooked squash, I was wondering is it only pumpkin that has a wormning quality or is it any squash and about the seeds.. being broken, crushed, chopped, ground??? why? what is the reasoning.?? is it the properties inside the seed or the scraping action of the seed itself that clears the intestines?

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