What a steal!!! Such a surplus of pumpkins!!

[FarmerGrant011]

I had a party and had people bring pumpkins and we carved them!!! What does this have to do with chickens you might be wondering?? Well, when all the scraps of pumpkin cut outs and seeds and gunk is left.... (light bulb!) Lots of free chicken food! And plus isn't pumpkins supposed to help with worms? So yeah... Basically what I'm saying...
EVERYONE GO THROW A PUMPKIN CARVING PARTY!!!! lol.

Grant

 

[jeepguy982001]

awesome idea

 

[peachachecha]

I read many people say how much their chickens loved pumpkin so I bought two small pie pumpkins for them, cut in third and gave it to them. They turned their little feathered backs on it. Picky, Picky, Picky!!

 

[real_redhead]

Hadn't thought about giving the girls the pumpkin scraps...can't wait til we start carving!

 

[FarmerGrant011]

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How about a regular pumpkin cut in half??

 

[KDK1]

I put the word out a couple of weeks ago to all my friends to save me all the pumkin innards.

 

[Beekissed]

I ask people to give me their pumpkins after they have used them in fall displays....then I keep them over the winter and let them ferment. Chickens love them much more after they have fermented, so if they turn up their noses at them right now, just save those pumpkins, let 'em freeze, thaw, refreeze, etc. By early spring they will be moldy and flat...and livestock eat them like caviar!!!

 

[kari_dawn]

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So, if you let them decompose a bit, are they still beneficial as an aid in worm control?

 

[drumstick diva]

I thought it's not safe to feed chickens moldy stuff

 

[Beekissed]

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Fermented pumpkins are sometimes slightly moldy and fermented foods are good for livestock/chickens(think silage)....moldy grains, on the other hand, not so good. The seeds will still have the antihelminic affect that is desired and the nutritive value of the feed after fermentation is increased past just feeding the ripened pumpkins.