Halloween & Pumpkins Can They Eat Them???

[thereverend]

Can chickens eat pumpkins? After Halloween can i feed them the pumpkins
from the yard. The jack O' Lanterns?

 

[gryeyes]

YES. Remove any wax from candles, though...

They LOVE pumpkins, and they for sure love pumpkin guts!

 

[gritsar]

I am not disagreeing with gryeyes AT ALL, but my adult flock won't touch pumpkin. Go ahead and offer it to them.

 

[b.hromada]

Mine aren't keen on it either. Whats up with that?

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Apparently some birds won't eat pumpkin, but I've yet to have a bird that wouldn't scarf up any sort of squash/pumpkin they could get if I chopped them up for them.

 

[alicefelldown]

I wouldn't give them to your girls if you tried to preserve the lantern - some people use bleach or vaseline.

Fresh pumpkin however - YUM!! Mine go nuts for it!

 

[Karens62]

My girls are attacking one right now. I cut a couple 2inch holes on opposite sides and they are eating it inside out.

 

[bgelber]

My girls love it. Plus if there is anything left the next day I put water in it and watch the ducks go to town. They love the "pumpkin juice" as I call it.

 

[thechickenchick]

Mine enjoy them every year! If it is a carved pumpkin I just put it in as is, soon there will be nothing left. I cut a whole pumpkin in halves or quarters, it too disappears quickly. I have also read that the seeds act as a dewormer.

 

[Olive Hill]

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Only if you can keep them from eating them before then.

Seriously, mine have gone through 6 different pumpkins (and squashes) already.

The geese get them started and the chickens finish them off.