What do you guys do with things like butternut pumpkin and other dense vegetables? Do you cook it a bit to soften it up, or just grate it?
no I don't cook anything,it's all raw,for my centrals I chop everything into pea sized chunks and for my pygmies it's about 1/2 that size.
When I had juvies I put the food through 1 of those old fashioned hand-crank mincers.
I put fresh veg every morning & leave all day/night and I feed bugs in the arvo