How long will intact pumpkins last outside?

[Muggsmagee]

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I've heard that moldy foods can kill chickens.

I put our moldy pumpkings in the compost (along with other moldy scraps), the chickens and pot belly pig picked them clean. It really depends on the mold. Look at bleu cheese! That stuff looks like it would kill US!

 

[gale65]

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I think ours might be too, but they have nothing else to peck at all day so I'll keep putting the pumpkins in there. At the very least they get something other than layer feed all the time.

beekissed-thanks for the explanation. I think I'll leave a couple outside to freeze and thaw and see how that works out. The pumpkin my daughter carved did have those green dots inside so I didn't feed it to them but I guess I could have.