What Animals Eat Halloween Pumpkins

How Halloween pumpkins can become a tasty treat for animals Some people in Nova Scotia are finding creative ways to repurpose old Halloween pumpkins by giving them to animals for a festive treat.

What animals eat halloween pumpkins. If you would like to support the wildlife in your garden with the pumpkins youve bought for Halloween another great idea is to create birdfeeders out of them. The African lions sloth bears meerkats red river hogs pygmy hippos and. This wont smell great but it should work.

Pigs wont normally eat too much pumpkin at once but be sure to provide their regular food source along with the pumpkins. The video which first went viral back in 2013 is a. Theyll eat the whole pumpkin and might even roll the pumpkins to play with their food.

When it comes to Halloween zoo animals just want the jack-o-lanterns. Its just a cake show now. Animals eat Halloween pumpkins in Zoo Budapest and Botanical Garden Source.

Today animals at Brookfield Zoo were treated to some Halloween treatspumpkins. These include Sugar Pie Kabocha Jack-Be-Little Ghost Rider Hubbard Jarrahdale Baby Pam and Cinderella pumpkins. While they can be eaten the mass-produced Halloween pumpkins found at grocery stores are bred to be decorations and do not have good flavour or texture.

Squirrels and cute little Chipmunks love pumpkin seeds. To avoid waste chop them up and put them in the compost after October 31st. Cut your pumpkin into pieces and scatter outside as a treat for local critters.

Woodchucks will surely enjoy pumpkin as well. Just as you are ready to harvest your fruit you find they have gnawed through your pumpkin to extract the seeds. Animals wont like the smell of another animal and they will back away.