collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Do deer like pumpkin???  (Read 7250 times)

Offline shadowless_nite

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 651
  • Location: Vancouver
Do deer like pumpkin???
« on: November 17, 2008, 02:29:10 PM »
so i have a bunch of left over pumpkin that hasn't started rotting away yet and didnt want it to go to waste. Ive never heard of anyone ever using pumpkin for deer feed so i thought id throw it out there??

does anyone know if i chop up some pumpkin chunks if theyll go after em? id like to get some good pictures on my camera during late season and before the pumpkins go to waste. thanks everyone!

justin

Offline rougheye

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 1054
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2008, 02:46:30 PM »
Every year we put our pumkins on our door step for Halloween and the deer come eat them right off my door step . I know mule deer like them

Online TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4504
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2008, 02:49:39 PM »
Whitetail love them, you can get as many as you want from Greenbluff, just in time for the bow hunters  :chuckle:
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline Intruder

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 1722
  • Location: Spo-Vegas
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2008, 02:52:44 PM »
Every year we put our pumkins on our door step for Halloween and the deer come eat them right off my door step . I know mule deer like them

The whitetail in my neighborhood do the same thing.  So do the moose sometimes.

Offline blacktail luv

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 543
  • Location: White Salmon
  • Shed Hunting Fool
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2008, 02:55:27 PM »
 well other guys have said that mule deer and whitetails love them so i guess i should tell you that the blacktails around our old house would eat them off the porch this time of year. :)

Offline shadowless_nite

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 651
  • Location: Vancouver
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2008, 03:36:51 PM »
yeah im aiming towards blacktail since im in sw area so theres no white tails for a good distance. well this is good to know and thanks for the help im gonna try the apples out in my new feeder i made!


Offline Dadbear

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 195
  • Location: Lewis County, WA
Re: Do deer like pumpkin???
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2008, 09:00:17 AM »
Hope this info helps. In addition to hunting blacktails, I grow pumpkins to sell each year for our small farm along with hay, corn and apples from our orchard. During September, it drives me crazy trying to keep those darned blacktails out of the pumpkins! They destroy them just as they're starting to turn orange  >:(. After Halloween, when the pumpkins have all been sold, I take the leftovers into the woods to use for my trail camera. Guess what.... then, the deer won't go near the pumpkins!  :bash:  Pretty danged funny if you ask me. Also, we have neighbors who have no trouble at all with deer in their pumpkins.  :dunno: Good luck.

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

5 Points......(mule deer or blacktails) by boneaddict
[Today at 09:41:55 AM]


How to get big game rules changed? by hunter399
[Today at 09:38:16 AM]


Ice fishing for walleye by Russ McDonald
[Today at 09:32:20 AM]


TEN TIPS FOR GREAT FIELD PHOTOS - A strategy for taking quality success photos by KNOPHISH
[Today at 09:00:54 AM]


Your Idea of the perfect bull elk by Okanagan
[Today at 08:51:56 AM]


Tease 'l' by Ricochet
[Today at 08:14:25 AM]


35 whelen by tgray
[Today at 08:13:08 AM]


“Recreational trappers”? by GWP
[Today at 07:36:53 AM]


Searing prime rib by trophyhunt
[Today at 07:34:22 AM]


Define Wide by nwwanderer
[Today at 06:38:00 AM]


GO 2025 15th Annual Hunting-Washington Christmas Gift Exchange by wadu1
[Today at 06:23:34 AM]


Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26 by bearpaw
[Today at 01:01:18 AM]


GROUSE 2025...the Season is looming! by Humptulips
[Yesterday at 10:25:47 PM]


Winchester SX3 problem by CNEDUX
[Yesterday at 09:14:55 PM]


Winthrop wolves by KP-Skagit
[Yesterday at 08:38:05 PM]


Perfect 4 by NOCK NOCK
[Yesterday at 06:14:20 PM]


Learning his ducks by metlhead
[Yesterday at 04:07:20 PM]


GSP Breeders- looking for GSP puppy by gallion_t
[Yesterday at 02:41:10 PM]


Curvy Damascus Utility Fighter by A. Cole
[Yesterday at 02:38:47 PM]


Big changes to skamania county boat launching by dilleytech
[Yesterday at 01:44:52 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal