I live in S.W. Okla. and I can't seem to get the deer to really like the Austrian Winter Peas. The oats are a different matter. They love them and being a grain like wheat I'm sure it has plenty of nutrition. Oats don't like the freezing weather but here, they sometimes actually survive the winter. I'm betting that you'd have good luck with them too and seeing that you are in Texas, yours might just survive unless you have an unusually cold winter for your area.