We haven’t put our pumpkins out yet because every year the squirrels chew their way into them.
To be fair, we feed them nuts, seeds and fruit & veg every day so one can’t really get mad.
We’ll put them out closer to Halloween.
We saw a tip once to get chickens to make your jack o lantern by dabbing something tasty where you wanted holes. My chickens thought we were nuts and ignored the pumpkin until we cut it up for them .
Maybe I should try again :)