Any proof that deer actually eat pumpkins? I'd heard they do, but I've tried tossing them around by the corn and the deer wouldn't come in for several days to eat the corn or the pumpkins. We finally had to go out and remove them and they came right back in.

Agree I’ve put them out. They just seem to rot nothing seems to eat them. Maybe with the corn gone they may eat them.

NEVER any luck with pumpkins ... now sweet potatoes, that's a different story.

In PA they will stomp on them in the fields and chow. I've seen this myself. Need to be good and ripe.
Are they really consuming large quantities ? I would say no.

I have seen them eat pumpkins in Fla.

My goats love them. Never tried it for deer.

Like many things, it seems they need to be or become accustomed to the new thing as food. From talking to folks who live in places where pumpkins are regularly grown, their local deer will eat them. I’ve been taking our front porch pumpkins to the camp for the last three years and the deer don’t touch them. The hogs don’t touch them. Crows peck at them a little.
I think it’s the same with brassicas. People complain that their deer don’t really eat them much the first year if they haven’t already had them as a regular plot seed.

Wife dumped about 3 here at the house last year and they sat for months and months with nothing touching them. Deer acted scared of'em (they definitely avoided) so i took a shovel and tossed 'em. But they won't eat out or around any feeder here either, so who knows 😏

lol ya - fruit scraps go to our chickens

They nibble on them in the field . They dont like them from what I've seen

I had a lease in KY several years ago with probably 10 acres of pumpkins and the deer would absolutely eat them

I set some out at lease here last year. Wife said put them out to see from halloween. I put them at roads on my lease - they rotted. I set some more out this year at all turns/roads on my lease. May freak a poacher out 😀

Bubba Roundtree on YouTube put some out around his feeders after Halloween...the deer avoided them like the plague.

Deer don't seem to like them, squirrels will tear them up.

Deer do not like anything different initially. I’ve had them act weird over moving bait 20’ when they eat it every day. You move it a few feet and they go nuts. I’ve also gone from shelled corn to whole ears and they lose their minds and not eat ear corn for days. Just stay consistent with whatever you use. Any changes to what they’re used to seeing and it messes their little brains up.

Ive grown pumpkins. I cant remember deer ever messing with them. Rats did, they chewed on them prety good but deer never did.

People swear by them but never seen them eat sweet potatoes. Threw some out and never would touch them

They will eat dried up watermelon that was left on the vine, never had them touch a pumpkin though.

The only three things I’ve found a white tail deer won’t eat at some point or another are Fake and metal plants, Rosemary, and Basil.

If you bust the pumpkins open and they finally discover it, they will eat them.

We collected up about 3000 pounds of pumpkins from our displays at work, piled them up in the back and there were 6-12 deer at it every evening and morning that I went by to check. The pile was gone within about 2-3 weeks

I’ve put them in field behind the house every year for years. Never seen em touched.
But deer can be odd. Got a place a few miles away not quite as deer dense as here at the house. They would not eat corn out of one of those Moultrie feeders that straps to the tree. Corn had to be on the ground. I shot an 8 point with his head in the feeder here.

i believe they dont like them here in bama but maybe on a pumpkin farm. these aint normal for them

I scattered my front porch pumpkins on a plot again yesterday but instead of just setting them out I chopped them with a machete. We’ll see if they are eaten this time and by what.

Used to see eating pumpkins and cabbage Al over the woods in WI and while grouse hunting

I’ve not seen them eating out jack-o’-lantern pumpkins here but buddy used to grow eating pumpkins by the duck hole and they’d kick them open and eat just like watermelons.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-th...eir-pumpkins-and-it-struck-me-as-bizarre

I also recall when biological first came out some guys had trouble with getting deer to eat it while others said they mowed it down. It may be a regional thing or lack of knowing

Like the first time I planted sunflowers and a few other crops.

They ignored it until they tried it and then it was on. Sometimes takes a few years and other times a few weeks.