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Offline lokidog

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Re: Pears
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2017, 02:00:04 PM »
As mentioned, the deer do seem to like ripe pears.

I'd like to do a bunch of pear cider/wine next year if you need a place for some of them to go. Dried pears are really good as well.

I know where there are a couple wild pear trees and I dehydrate some every year. Soak in orange juice & honey then dehydrate....Yummy. Goes real good with merganser breast :hello:

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Re: Pears
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2017, 02:29:13 PM »
I put out a bunch that were still hard, unripe.  Deer at my place wouldn't touch them until they finally softened up and then ate them just fine.  Mostly mule deer coming in so I don't know how the whitetails or blacktails would do.

Good to know. Thank you for the input.
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Re: Pears
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2017, 03:08:58 PM »
Our Blacktails will eat green apples but not green pears.

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Re: Pears
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2017, 07:29:58 AM »
As I understand it, the problem with many problem with many pear varieties is that they need to be exposed to cold weather or refrigeration in order to ripen for human use (though I often eat Bartlett fresh from the tree).   On my trees, the fruit will often begin to rot while on the tree if not picked when prime.  None of the fruit is left on the trees by the first frost around here.   

I have refrigerated small amounts for deer use at a later date, but forty pounds doesn't last too long.  Unpicked good quality fruit is eaten by blacktails here, but the deer more often choose the ripe apples off the adjacent trees over the poor quality/squishy unharvested pears.   A ton or two of pear bait on the ground sounds like a nasty pile of rotting wasp bait to me.  Yuk!
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