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| John McGaw... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:43 pm |
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SteveB wrote:
Quote: kmlcc at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2ee997bd-cca4-4eb7-b033-17e831437a39 at (no spam) q14g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
I heard on "The FiringLine Forums" that some coyotes like apples. On
YouTube they say that Gray Squirrels eat apples too.
KM
Correct on both counts. I had a coyote come out in broad daylight to feed
on crabapples (those that are about one inch in diameter) and it returned
several days in a row. I thought it was cute, being a newcomer to this
ranch life. I found out later that it had eaten a turkey, a cat, and a kid
goat at the neighbor's house.
Any squirrel eats apples.
Steve
Going by the "five feet" and "trampled ground" mentioned in the OP
squirrels seem to out of the question -- no reason that a squirrel would be
limited to that height an no squirrel could trample anything substantial.
Based on the same information the height and trampling seem to leave
coyotes out of the picture. But take even a small deer and five feet is
easy to accomplish even it if has to rear up on its hind legs and those
sharp deer hooves are likely to make a mess of the ground in short order.
My vote still goes for deer even in the OP is in the UK since they are
having a deer population explosion of major proportions and anywhere in
North America deer are common and fearless.
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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
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| toolkit_03... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:14 pm |
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Hector Hound;865766 Wrote:
Quote: Hi. My first post is a puzzle. My apples have disappeared! I have two
trees, about four years old. One day last week, there were all my
apples - gone. Well, all except for a few at the top of each tree, from
about five feet upwards. The grass underneath the trees was trampled and
there were no apples on the ground.
I know the obvious answer is kids and if I can't find another I'll have
to settle for that. The problem is that, for various reasons, I think
it's unlikely in this case. Based on the height of the apples that were
left, they would have been very small kids - too young for the usual
profile of apple-takers. And I just know the neighbourhood and the kids
and my garden would be very hard to get into, especially for small kids,
has never been "visited" before and there were no signs of entry.
So - is there an animal that takes apples? Foxes? There are foxes in
the neighbourhood. I believe foxes are omnivorous and the height of the
apples left would fit the fox theory.
Any other ideas? Has anybody else had this experience? Thanks for any
information/suggestions.
Hector.
If that is not done by human then its an animal. Keep squirrels out of
your apple trees, they love fruits specially apples.
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