rotten apples

[PBNJ]

Do deer eat rotting apples or just fresh fallin ones?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I have seen them eat both

[bbassi]

they eat all of them in my yard. It usually takes them until April to clean them all up, digging through snow to find the frozen ones when necessary.

[Rico]

Seems like you get some that prefer them more than others. They also have a preference for different varietys at different times.

[ishiwannabe]

I would say all of em because my yard is bare. They like pears and crab apples too.

[geno]

I use to watch the does get on there back legs and fight each other over peaches in my back yard. cool stuff.

[BamBooBender]

I threw some apples that were going bad out on the trail behind my house. A couple of hours later I was taking the dog for a walk and saw that they were already mostly gone.

[Tim Clark]

They'll eat most any condition, fermenting apples as well. They especially love the pomace (pronounced same as "pumice"), the somewhat dried fibrous residue leftover from making cider; the local hunters flock to the orchard to get pickup loads of the stuff for bait. Not legal, but - we all know plenty of "hunters" that don't have much regard for laws. And Rico is right on the money - I've seen them at the pomace piles in the winter at the orchards, some will not touch an apple in the pile (the apples not fit for cider-making are sorted out and tossed into the pile) while others root through the pile like pigs trying to find the apples.