deer and pecans

[centex hunter]

Do deer eat pecans. Have a chance to lease a pecan bottom. No one has ever hunted. There is some big deer in the area but not alot of brush to hold'em. I have always hunted hill country not river bottoms.

[Deer Tracks]

They will if they can get to them.

[Graybow]

Deer and turkeys and hogs will all eat them

[Dahmer]

They will eat them, but you will have to contend with them tree rats also.

[Texas Grown]

Yes, they will. But hogs love them too, espcially in the winter. You can hear them at night eating them from a quater mile away as they scower thrugh the rough for them. If you have aroad that runs through the trees and shelled nuts fall on the road, the turkeys wil visit for the ones cracked open from vehicals. Easy pickens! Wait....... that's easy pi-cans.

[txtimetravler]

crows, hogs, everything will eat them.

Might be a nice place to put a tree stand in and just watch mother nature at her best.

[Mudshack]

last years bumper pecan crop is the reason I didn't see any deer during the season....they were on the other end of the lease were all the pecans were. YES THEY EAT THEM...and prefer pecans over corn!!!

[mesquitecountry]

i mean think about it would you rather eat succulent pecans or dried ol corn..











Yes deer love em. if you ever drive by a pecan orchard you can bet you'll see some type of game.

[FarFromHome]

I concur. They love em. The first place in the hill country I hunted had a huge native pecan bottom and it was filled with deer all the time along with hogs, turkeys, treerats and everyother kind of critter you can think of.

[Smokeater]

What really brings 'em in is when you shell 'em.

[Richard M.]

Hmm, I would have guessed different. I have a lot of pecan tress on my lease and have never seen the deer pay any attention to them at all. They stay camped under the oaks. Paper shells may be a different stoy.

[Jaspro]

They even like them with that nasty green husk on them. Or at least around our area they do.

[dr730]

I had the pleasure of hunting a pecan bottom in Brownwood several times and there were ALWAYS deer in there eating them. It started to get hunted pretty heavily and the deer knew it but they still couldn't resist going in there to eat those pecans. The first morning I ever rifle hunted that place I killed 2 doe and a nine point buck within 20 minutes.

[woody wood]

If you have aroad that runs through the trees and shelled nuts fall on the road, the turkeys wil visit for the ones cracked open from vehicals. Easy pickens! Wait....... that's easy pi-cans.

[Buck-a-Do]

I have seen more deer in a pecan orchard than I have in a peach orchard. Going towards the dam at Lake Brownwood, there are two pecan orchards on the road. The last one you get to before getting into the lake area, I have seen more deer there than any where else around the lake.