How do you prep your pumpkin seeds for your chickens?

[Country Heart]

I understand that chickens like pumpkin seeds and that they are even good for them. What I don't know is...are they best prepared some way (baked, boiled, etc.) or do you just provide them to them raw?

How do your chickens like their pumpkin seeds?

 

[PortageGirl]

cut the pumpkin into chunks and toss em into the pen or yard.

I plan on going to stores and market stands and asking to have any pumpkins they have left right after halloween.

Yum Yum!

 

[AHappychick]

its a great natural wormer. I just slice them into 1/4 or 1/8ths and let them hav at it they will eat the flesh too

Sometimes I sprinkle them with DE and when doing my official worming I withhold feed for day then give them just a bunch of seeds mixed with DE and buttermilk and then resume normal feeding the next day. I grow pumpkins just for this reason, although this years harvest has been terrible.

 

[ranchhand]

I cut it into chunks, some folks just put a whole pumpkin out and let the chickens have at it.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I just split mine in 4ths and let them go at it!!!

 

[HippieChickyMama]

I cut one in half for my girls so it was like a soup bowl and they hollowed both halves completely out. Love it!

 

[teach1rusl]

Well, I wasn't sure about the seeds either, so I just scooped some out "raw" and tossed them in there. My little girls are just 6 wks, so they didn't really know what to do with them (or the pieces of pumpkin I put in there). They sampled a few, and enjoyed investigating, but they didn't act like pumpkin was the next best thing to sliced bread...lol.

 

[Country Heart]

Guess once the pumpkins have done their main Halloween duty, I'll just chunk them up and let the girls have their own Halloween party.

 

[twentynine]

I throw the punkin into the run hard enough to bust it open. Finished-done-chickens handle the rest.

 

[txchickie]

I cut a whole pumpkin right in half and set it out for them

Be ready for the orange poo!