For my dehydrated apples I used my handy peeler corer, which makes lovely strings of apple peel. I twisted them into a wreath and hung the bundle up for the chickens. A had a longish stand fall loose and witnessed first hand why I want the chickens to have to pick off bits, as a hen picked up the end of the strand and gulped down the whole piece! I can image the tangle a whole peel would make in her crop!