And cows! Yesterday I rose with the dawn as usual – bug used my blogging time to hurry through my chores so I could drove over to a friends farm to collect pumpkins and still be back in time for afternoon chores here.
My friend sold the blossoms from these plants all summer long – for 50 cents each. At least a thousand blossoms a week. But now that season is over, and I was given the field of pumpkins for the pigs and cows. 
I filled the truck right to the brim and over the next few days I will sort any that will store into the shed as I feed out. The pigs and cows will be living on pumpkin for a good few weeks. ( Mixed with their feed but still saving hundreds in feed costs). The animals will eat them all up before the land freezes and everything in the shed freezes solid too.
Above is my friends old Gleaner combine. Such a cool old machine.
The piglets loved the pumpkin immediately.
Del is still teaching the other cows about them. They need training to new feeds. The calves were chewing on them by evening.
Even this little steer on the other side.
Well I have my work cut out for me today. And we got some rain in the night so I will be unloading fast so as to get all the pumpkins into the dry before the showers return.
There was talk of a crew coming to take down two dead trees close to the house today. But I am not sure if they will still come after the very welcome rain.
We will see.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
44 responses to “PUMPKINS FOR PIGS”
oh my goodness….look at all the yummy food for your animals!
Yes! It was a score!
Pumpkin flowers… now there’s a thought. Yum ☺
Oh, ok, I didn’t realize they were that close to the house…best to get them out! 🙂 We had 3 huge Douglas Firs next to our house also and we were afraid that one of them…or all three would come down on the house in a windstorm…which happens all the time around here…so the tree people encouraged us to just top them…leaving no branches and no chance of toppling in a wind storm…They looked really ugly like that for a long time but before we knew it…they were full of birds, such as owls and huge woodpeckers, our native squirrels, all kinds of miniature wildlife, etc. and some really cool mushrooms growing on them. It is nice that you still have some other dead trees around! They do get pretty holey after awhile!
What a great arrangement for the pumpkins!
Now THAT is a Combine… (Not one of those behemoths that travel on a gazillion balloon tires; )
(And take up both lanes of the roadway… ):
Such fabulous images Celi 🙂