What Animals Eat Pumpkins And Gourds. Most herbivores will eat pumpkins. Most of the pumpkins were going bad, so next year i’ll go earlier in the season.
I don’t know what it is about them that’s so appealing. Hardshell gourds are lagenaria siceraria which means “drinking vessel” since that is one of the many uses. You may be surprised to learn that you can feed pumpkins to chickens.
We did get some great gourds though, of every size, shape, and color you could imagine.
Speckled swan gourds, bottle gourds, dipper gourds, penguin or powderhorn gourds, and even one called caveman’s club are all lagenarias. Gourds, pumpkins and squash all come from the cucurbita family. But i hate the fact that the pumpkins are bought and set out and then tossed a month or so later. These two have almost the same properties and have a maturity period of about 100 to 129 days.
