Apples or Pears?

[longtimegone]

Are Apples or Pears a better bet for whitetails?

Criteria

Deer Preference
Maintenance
Quantity of Yeild
Consistency of Yeild

[lawmanbville353]

NO difference deer will gobble up both.

[kybadcat36]

See the thread on "need advice on summer food plot" Piture of deer stealing apples!!!!!!!

[Georgia Transplant]

If your going to plant apples then I would plant the Arkansas black apple because it will start falling after the 1st frost in October. I've got 2 trees planted together on my farm.:)

[kidd rock]

If your going to plant apples then I would plant the Arkansas black apple because it will start falling after the 1st frost in October. I've got 2 trees planted together on my farm.:)

How long does it take them to start producing?

[barney]

If your going to plant apples then I would plant the Arkansas black apple because it will start falling after the 1st frost in October. I've got 2 trees planted together on my farm.:)
I have one of those too, and its about Christmas Eve before they are soft enough for a human to eat!:cool:

[huntindawoods]

When I was still in high school I worked at a grocery store and I would alway get to take the rotted fruit or the fruit getting soft, I would always take the apples and pears couldn't never tell which they liked better I don't think they really cared which they eat first i think they liked them about the same

[Georgia Transplant]

I have one of those too, and its about Christmas Eve before they are soft enough for a human to eat!:cool:

I just planted mine in April at 7 foot tall. The nursury that I bought them from said they would start falling after the 1st frost sometime around the end of October and hang around until just after christmas. It may take 2 to 3 years before they produce with ferterlizer stakes twice a year.

[The scout'n man]

I've got both in my front yard. I will say the pears seem to be more consistant plus they taste better. but the deer seem to go for the apples more. I set my game cam up on them a few weeks ago and they didn't even hit the pears. Both trees are loaded this year. by the way peaches are a good bet too! My grandma has a couple trees and they been hitting them awfly hard.

[lonesomepine]

I've got both in my front yard. I will say the pears seem to be more consistant plus they taste better. but the deer seem to go for the apples more. I set my game cam up on them a few weeks ago and they didn't even hit the pears. Both trees are loaded this year. by the way peaches are a good bet too! My grandma has a couple trees and they been hitting them awfly hard.

Depending on variety,but as a general rule of thumb apples will get ripe before most pears do.Deer will eat both the same,depends on location and other food source availability.Used to have 2 pear trees isolated on a hill on the farm I grew up on that didn't get ripe until late October,the deer would tear them up then.

[Hammer]

I don't know about pears. My experience with apples is that the deer in my area don't touch them.

I'm not sure if it's because they are the nasty "Mush" apples (doubt it), or if they don't know what it is because there are no apple trees around. I guess there's a learning curve to them eating stuff if it's not naturally in the area? Who knows; I just learned the hard way not to waste my time and energy taking apples from my trees at home to the farm because they just sit there and rot.