MONTGOMERY, Vt. (WCAX) - You might want to think twice before tossing your pumpkins - they can make a delicious post-Halloween treat for farmyard friends.

A pack of pigs up in Montgomery shows how to recycle your jack o’ lanterns.

For humans, picking pumpkins is a Halloween highlight. For these pigs, the fun starts when you get rid of your display.

Mark Brouillette of Breezy Acres Farm tracks down the orange goods every year for his one hundred pigs.

Reporter Sophia Thomas: “Do you think they know the pumpkins are for them?”

Brouillette: “Oh, when I pull in, they see it and they all start coming over.”

The pumpkin seeds and gourd goo are a big hit.

“We’ve got plenty of pigs to feed them to, and it’s good for them, and it’s a natural dewormer, so it helps us too, and it keeps them he

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