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 Pumpkins and Deer
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11/07/22 04:28 PM
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kwrhuntinglab
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So I kept seeing these things about not throwing your pumpkins away and taking them out to the lease to feed your deer... That is a bunch of bull. I dropped 3 out there over a week ago and nothing has touched them.
Anyone else done this?
Spend time with the ones you love. Time is not guaranteed.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
[Re: kwrhuntinglab]
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11/07/22 06:08 PM
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garyrapp55
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I’ve never done it but nothing is eating my corn either. Fresh acorns is the reason here.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/07/22 06:10 PM
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Gringo Bling
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I tried it for years, never saw any signs of deer eating them. Didn't matter whether it was fully intact, smashed into pieces, regular pumpkin, or decorative gourd.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/07/22 06:13 PM
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Mine seem to like watermelon, none of my tomatoes or peppers made it this summer in my garden but last year's watermelon went to seed and I have 20+. you can only eat so many, i've taken 6-8 out to the land and they are just skins left. Not so much with pumpkin.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/08/22 09:25 PM
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JCB
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I gathered up probably 10 after Halloween a few years ago. Chopped them up with a machete and scattered around the feeders. Even the pigs wouldn’t touch them.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/09/22 04:48 AM
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Daddybigbuck
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When the wife is done with our pumpkins I will take them and scatter them around the feeders. The first year i left them hole and nothing touched them the second year i cut them in half and the deer at them up! I have done this for a couple years now.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/12/22 09:52 PM
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ctonsmitty
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My brilliant brother put some out last year. Nothing ate them except buzzards (no deer, no hogs, only buzzards)
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/12/22 09:56 PM
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txtrophy85
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So I kept seeing these things about not throwing your pumpkins away and taking them out to the lease to feed your deer... That is a bunch of bull. I dropped 3 out there over a week ago and nothing has touched them.
Anyone else done this? This is a reminder to not believe everything you see on Facebook
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/12/22 11:07 PM
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Roll-Tide
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Hmm.
Would think at least hog would eat them
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/13/22 02:02 AM
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ChrisB
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Takes about 6 months for them to rot away.
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Re: Pumpkins and Deer
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11/13/22 05:36 AM
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redchevy
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Taken them to the ranch for years and nothing has touched them yet. My brothers domestic pigs love them!
It's hell eatin em live
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