Deer Damaged Pumpkins

For the 1st Year in the last 15 years of growing my pumpkins I've had a deer decide that they are tasty!
They ate all of my Cinderella and Field pumpkins in one of my patches but they left my big pumpkins that are planted about a acre away alone that night.
Then a couple of nights ago they found my big pumpkins and they took about 8 big bites out of my 2nd largest.
I have taken countermeasures to protect the pumpkins left just short of putting the 1 big buck out of the 5 that I think is the culprit in the freezer.
The bites have scabbed over and don't appear to be going soft but I was wondering if I should put something on the bite chunk spots just in case to protect them or just watch it closely!
I do have a few cuke beetles but they haven't bothered my plants and I have been hand picking them off but the deer are a different story.
Also I am very reserved on spraying my pumpkins because at the end of the year I recycle my pumpkins by goats and poultry which create the manure for the garden! =-) 

Thanks!

Errol

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