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.