pumpkins??

[Tres Amigas]

Our chickens will clean a pumpkin right down to the skin and not stop until they're done. I just bash it on the ground, tear it in two, and throw it in the run. Good food.

 

[Tracydr]

Some large poultry people buy or grow thousands of pounds of pumpkins for their chickens. I plan to snatch all the sale pumpkins I can for my flock. Great feed for chickens!

 

[OneTenthAcreAndAChicken]

Ours munched heartily. We kept the seeds for ourselves, but the rest of the guts went into the run - all gone now.

After reading the other posts here - I guess I'll crack open the jack-o-lanterns and put them in next...

 

[LiLRedCV]

We tossed our pumpkins out to the chickens. Loved it!

 

[crazyhen]

If they do not like them raw bake in an oven until soft and they will fight for them. You can even freeze the pulp for later in the winter. I do that with greens and pumpkins too. It keeps the egg yokes so reddish orange. I know they are healthier. Gloria Jean

 

[DanyyChicken]

Thanks then... I'll try it out on them...saved the inners of our Jack O Latern.

 

[Katydid2011]

I grow a huge pumpkin patch just so I'll have extras to give my girls. Pumpkins are a flock favorite over here.

 

[wolftracks]

I sent out a multiple text to my kids and a few of their friends, asking for they're used pumpkins and or inners. Love my SIL, because when he got to their house Halloween night I had 3 huge bags of pumpkin. I get the cut artwork tomorrow. I've saved seeds from all the ones I've gotten hold of to plant and the rest the birds get along with the rest of the pumpkin. I have some weird birds and some greedy birds. Most ate them, but my Bantam Wellies turn their beaks up at all treats. I mean anything I've ever given them. Not the rest of the mob though. I swear I saw eyes rolling while they gobbled everything down. I've only used 1/4 of the first bag, so I have days of goodies for them.