How to Carve Pumpkins for Chickens | FAST & EASY

Pumpkins are basically a super-food for chickens, and a 12 gauge shotgun makes about a million bite-size chunks for your chickens to easily nibble on! Not to mention that shooting pumpkins is super fun, and it gave me a great opportunity to teach my children about gun safety.
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Autumn has come and gone and now we’re in rotting pumpkin season (AKA winter). All our friends know that when it’s time to toss those fall decorations to give us a call because our chickens LOVE pumpkins. Pumpkins have several beneficial vitamins and nutrients that are good for a chicken’s health, which makes for happy, healthier chickens and therefore happier farmers.

We had a lot of fun with this video but it was also a great opportunity to teach my two oldest kids about gun safety. They’re going to grow up around firearms and I firmly believe that it is imperative that from a very young age they understand guns are serious business.

In case you’re wondering, I’m about 15 yards away from these pumpkins, shooting a Mossberg 535 with a modified choke. 2-3/4” shell with a fairly hot bird load (these are handloads and I don’t have the powder charge or the shot size in front of me at the time of writing this).

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