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.