I have a variety of apple tree some 25 years old that tend to drop smallish apples. This is for several reasons but mostly because they are usually over loaded, the type of trees and drought is common, because of this deer can get apples in mouth and I get pics often with whole apples in mouth of deer. This last 2 years I have had about 7 pear trees starting to drop pears, these pears are all very large, I mean like baseball to softball size and deer have not touched them yet that I have caught on camera, these pears also tend to be pretty dang hard even though they are of several different varieties. I realized there is a learning curve with new food in an area but I also was wondering if it could be due to the size of the fruit, I mean would deer prefer pears which are smaller if other factors are equal? Has any of you gentleman noticed a preference to smaller pears?