You bet they do. We have no oaks on our place, but have 3.5 miles of thick pecan bottoms along the river. The deer hammer them. They crunch them up shells and all.
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I've got a corn feeder that is under some native pecan trees, and in the years when the pecans are plentiful, the deer, javelina, turkeys, and just about every other animal around our place, will eat the pecans first over the corn. And like others have so aptly said, they make a racket crunching on them. The javelinas really chew them up loudly, but the deer only give them a bit of a crunch and then swallow them right away. They go off and chew on their cudd later and complete the digestion. I have a good crop of pecans around my area this year, and that adds to my excitement and andicipation for sure... Nothin' better than sitting in the stand before daylight and hearing all that crunching and waiting on daylight!
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We have 2500 hundred native pecan trees on our place. In the middle of nov. the harvesters come in with the bobcats, tree shakers, and pecan picker uppers and go to work. There are people(day laborers) everywhere and machinery making all kinds of noise. I cant wait to go hunting, they really get the deer moving, we always kill a nice buck or two that has been disturbed, as to deer eating them, I don't know, but the pigs destroy them.
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