I saw a trend floating around the internet where you could take a screw driver and poke out the outline of a jack-o-lantern face and then give the pumpkin to your chickens and let them go to town carving a pumpkin for halloween. Wherever they could smell the contents of the gourd or pumpkin they would apparently peck there instead of in the section without started openings to the inside of the pumpkin. I was curious if it would work. I was actually sick one day and my best friend/neighbor dropped off a covid test she had run to the nearest town to get. She said she’d gotten me a big round present to go with it while she was in town at the store and she hoped it cheered me up a bit. When i got to where the grocery bag was hanging on the fence i saw a perfectly round pumpkin sitting nearby. She had gotten me a pumpkin so we could try the trend with the chickens.
I waited until i felt well and then saved it a few more days because i had a friend coming from san antonio to help me with a project for the chickens and i thought we could try the trend together. I took a Philips head screwdriver and she took a flathead screwdriver and we poked holes in the face design i had drawn onto the pumpkin with pen. Once we felt well had sufficient holes in the drawn on design of the pumpkin we set the big orange globe in the chicken pen and let them gather round to see what it was we’d given them. They very quickly found the holes in the front of the pumpkin and rosie led the charge in what would become a two day process to carve a jack-o-lantern via chicken beaks. They seemed to favor the side poked with the Philips head screwdriver. I decided next year we’d use exclusively Philips head screwdrivers to poke the design. They worked on it off and on for two days and i dare say they did a pretty sufficient job. Realizing i didnt have to do a thing but 2 minutes of work with a screwdriver to get a jack-o-lantern, i decided to make this joint project with the chickens an annual occurrence around halloween.
