handy hint for left over pumpkins!

[angelat]

hi all,

people have probably done this anyway but here goes. i have been making pumpkins for halloween and it seemed a shame to throw the ones that we practised on so i have cut the pumpkin down to make a bowl shape and filled it with their layers mash or corn for them to eat out of! they were a bit dazzled by the new item and spent some time casing the joint so to speak but then they realised that there was food in there got stuck in. seems a novel way to recycle the old pumpkins!

angela t x

[Two_Sheds]

My parrot loves pumpkin flesh too, but I don't like having it splattered all up the curtains, TV, sofa ....

[petal]

our turkeys and ducks go crazy for pumpkins- so far all the innards have been thrown into their pens!

[tlck9]

aren't the seeds supposed to be bad for the chucks? Im sure I read about this last year somewhere, as I ended up picking them out

[janzbro]

seeds good for humans though - dry em and use them to snack on or roast them in the oven - NICE

Wouldnt the chucks eat the pumpkins if they were cut up small pieces?

if not you can make a nice Sri lankan style curry out of them
or
you can roast the whole pumpkin minus the pulp and seeds but including skin and then blend it into a soup with spices and veg stock

[Two_Sheds]

aren't the seeds supposed to be bad for the chucks?

I shouldn't think so, pumpkin seeds are standard food for parrots and I'm sure chickens are even less fussy

[nellie-m]

aren't the seeds supposed to be bad for the chucks? Im sure I read about this last year somewhere, as I ended up picking them out

Well, mine didn't mind them - and I didn't notice any bad effect on them either

[RichmondHens]

Mine love them too. No pumpkin leftovers here. We make soup (for ourselves) with the flesh and give all the seeds and fibrous bits to the chooks. No waste.

[jessmorris]

I remember some friends telling me last year that hey chucked their whole hallowe'en pumpkin into the hen pen and they ate the lot, bar gruesome smile!

[nellie-m]

Only today we had a nice pumpkin soup, with carrots, a parsnip and a few potatoes all cooked and blended, seasoned with curry and some orange juice - and the seeds and all the rest went to the chickens, no leftovers here either

[polo]

Yep -no waste here either - chucks will get the lanterns tomorrow too...

[julesapple]

Something like this;



We leave the pumpkins for the girls, but I don't give them the seeds as they are very big in some of our pumpkins. We rinse, dry and roast them with salt in the oven.

Jules

[nellie-m]

Poor Pumpkin at the dentist's, getting his last tooth extracted...

[walldanzig]

I save the seeds to grow more next year one of my chucks laid an egg inside the pumpkin. Not the least bit interested in eating it.