Pumpkins: Treats for farm Animals

    Our local grocery store gave us 5 pumpkins the other day so we could feed them to our animals.

The 5 free pumpkins we got.

 They were just going to throw them away and they knew we would take them.  Pumpkin is very good to feed to chickens.  They love it and pumpkins are a natural wormer for chickens.

 My boys had fun taking a rubber mallet to the pumpkins to break them up for the chickens.

One of the boys about to "whack" the pumpkin. 

A lot of good "meat" here for our chickens.  

Hubby wanted some of the fun too so he got out a machete and cut 2 of the pumpkins in half for the pigs.

Here he is positioning the 1st pumpkin "just so".

What form!!!

I know who to call if I need someone beheaded.  lol

We have 3 pens of chickens and 2 pigs so getting exactly 5 pumpkins really worked out for us.  

Our Rooster, a white Polish chicken.

I love her deep red color. 

Our Blue Silkie, one of our 1st chickens ever. 

"Pork Chop" enjoying his pumpkin.  

 If you have any left over cukes, gourds, squash or pumpkins, give me a call.  We'll gladly take them.  ;-)

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Chickens: Our starting flock

This is one of the Plymouth Rocks we got.

This is our Cinnamon Queen. Isn't she beautiful?

We began our chicken adventure back on August 7, 2011 with the purchase of our first flock of chickens. I am so glad we did too. These five layers have provided us with a lot of joy and a LOT of eggs. We consistently get 3-5 eggs a day, everyday, from these 5 ladies. That is more than the average for the breeds but they are really happy here and love us like we love them.
We have one Plymouth Rock, a Cuckoo Maran, a Golden Lace Wyandotte, a Cinnamon Queen and a Blue Silkie. I need to get more recent pictures of our girls because they are so beautiful now. The Blue Silkie is simply gorgeous and takes your breath away.
We are heavy eaters in our family and since we have had these five girls, I have yet to buy eggs from the store. We eat a sausage and egg casserole several days a week and I do a lot of baking but these girls keep up our demand.

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Our new chicks

This is one we call "Top Notch" for now because of his "hair" on his head. I say "he" because he acts like a rooster to us. We'll know for sure before too long. We believe he is a Buff Laced Polish or a White Polish. Do you agree?




This was taken about 2 1/2 weeks after we brought them home from a farm & country store. Guess they have already outgrown this enclosure. Love how they are all nesting on the top of the rim. :-) First chick we suspect to be a Polish, next a Cinnamon Queen, the next 2 we think are Rhode Island Reds, a Plymouth Rock and on the far right end we think she is a Silver Cubalaya or a Buff Oprington. Agree or not?


Here they are after we had them a 2 weeks. We got 8 total. We moved them to their outside "teenager" enclosure when we had them for 4 weeks. They are doing great out there.



We purchased 6 more chicks on April 6th. (Pics to come later). The new ones are all crested. A few looks to have beards so we are excited to see what kind they all turn out to be.
Do you want to see these babies on their first day in the chicken coop? Click here to view it: First day outside

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