Pumpkin Seeds Natural Dewormer For Back Yard Chickens

Chickens love pumpkins and they are very healthy for your chickens so feed up!

What to do with the pumpkins after Halloween?  Usually we just throw them out or let them set and rot until the spring when we scoop them up and discard the remains.

If you have chickens you are doing them a big disfavor by not feeding them the pumpkins, especially the seeds.

So after carving the pumpkin for Halloween please do your Chickens out in the backyard a huge favor and feed the seeds and also the meet from the pumpkin to them.

They will pick the meet and seeds from the pumpkin until all there is left is a thin membrane of the skin left.

Why feed them the pumpkins?  It’s for their health. Pumpkin is a natural wormer.  Pumpkin seeds have a coating on them  that paralyzes the worm and then the worm can be expelled by the digestive action of the gut..  Ground raw hulled Pumpkin Seeds are the best but what a significant difference in the overall health of my flock after feeding whole pumpkins to them.

I broke the pumpkins into chunks and threw seeds and all right into the coop.  the chickens needed no coaxing at all, in a matter of a few hours there was nothing left except for a thin membrane of orange pumpkin skin.

I recommend grinding the seeds up for your younger flocks to make them easier to digest.

Next year there will be a special place in my garden for pumpkins.  Not for Halloween though… I am planting chicken de-wormer

I am looking into seeing if squash will give the same results…  Maybe you know the answer to this?  Leave your comments below.