Deer browse on jerusalem artichoke

Hey guys,

I'm looking to hear your experiences on deer browse with j-chokes. In my experience, when they are newly planted, deer can do a lot of damage to them, but once they are mature, deer seem to lose interest. Do other people have similar experience? Do you ever notice deer browsing on your mature j-chokes?

I ask because if deer were known to browse mature plantings I would consider that a good thing, because then you could also also harvest deer meat, to complement your j-choke tubers.

Thoughts?

I've always been told that j-chokes make terrific animal fodder, but "they" were always talking cattle.  Our plants were well fenced because the grazers that like to help themselves were kangaroos. None growing presently, but the feral deer here have grazed (more like razed) the citrus trees to almost nothing, scraped the ends of the leaves of N.Z. flax, eaten the only rose, savaged lemon and ordinary thyme . . . so I'd guess anything green - we have been in drought conditions for about a year.   They deer are tasty though, compliments of a Govt. eradication scheme.

My Jerusalem artichokes are planted along the fence in one of my gardens.  Those closest to the fence ultimately never get higher than the fence due to deer.  Those out of their reach attain full height.

Yup, deer eat mine all the time and recently a woodchuck ate allot of them. I planted them in multiple places to see where they would do best.