Funny you should mention that. It has always been my bane with these trees. When they first started producing, I got like 23 nuts lol. And the damn squirrels got the rest. As they matured (some have been in the ground for a few years), we began shooting the squirrels. Got one today lol. I’m sometimes conflicted about that as I love animals, but console myself with ‘stay out of my yard and we won’t have a problem’. Stupid, I know, but they and the gophers can just eff off. Disease carrying destructive varmits the lot of them.