Pecans?

[jeg3455]

I have recently been given more pecans than I can eat and to many to give away (three 35 gallon trash cans full). I was wondering if I crush them do you think deer will eat them would this affect my hunting in a bad way? I would love your opinions or imput. By the way I live in Texas where baiting is legal.

[Roseaukaine]

You don't have enough - they love them where I live. Really, if the pecans are going to go to waste, put them out in one or two places once per week till they are gone. If the deer have never seen them before it might take some time for them to try them out, but if/when they do they will definitely come back for more. Don't crush all of them - crush a few dozen in each location to stimulate curiosity and a taste test. They won't need any help after that!

[jeg3455]

thanks for the help

[buttonbuckmaster]

I have a pecan tree next to my house. Tree rats and crows seem to like them. No deer in town, so I don't know if they eat pecans.

[sealgair243]

I believe deer like pecans, but I KNOW that turkey love them. A turkey my father shot a couple seasons ago had WHOLE pecans in his craw. They weren't the biggest pecans, but still, pretty amazing for an animal with minimal neck girth. If I were you, I'd put them in a spot where you have maybe seen some mature bucks walking, but they have become wary of feeders. Just be ware that the plan may go to hell once a family of racoons or a group of hen turkeys stumbles upon your stash and demolishes it. If you want to be really tricky, locate a natural pecan grove where some deer might be feeding anyway, and deposit the Pecans along the fringe of it, withing range of a permenant, or popup blind.
Your backup plan would be, if it's a rainy weekend and you don't want to go hunt, make a ton of Pecan Pies!

[jeg3455]

Thanks for all the great responses. I was afraid of scaring deer off, I decided to just feed the windmill/water hole two hundred yards to the right of my feeder I wanted to see how they would react and the deer were tearing them up, I could hear them crunching from my tripod. I plan on taking another hundred pounds down there again this weekend.

Thanks again for all the responses and help.