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Never heard of it before #8648451 07/25/22 02:14 PM
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I got a bunch/had a bunch of cantaloupes and watermelons .............2 coyotes and their pups have eaten them all up. I guess its so dry up here outside of Kingston...........but Ive never seen it before

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I've seen coyotes eat a lot of watermelons over the years. Sorry devils!


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Originally Posted by fadetoblack64
I got a bunch/had a bunch of cantaloupes and watermelons .............2 coyotes and their pups have eaten them all up. I guess its so dry up here outside of Kingston...........but Ive never seen it before


Coyotes do eat them.
I was cutting hay on my grandpas place and he had a small water melon patch there.
I was seeing water melon out in the patch and wondering why grandpa threw them out there.
I got down and looked and they had teeth marks in them.

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Well I be dammed

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Coyotes love watermelons and other gourd type plants.


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Originally Posted by txtrophy85
Coyotes love watermelons and other gourd type plants.


I admit it’s strange

Originally Posted by txtrophy85
Coyotes love watermelons and other gourd type plants.


I admit it’s strange



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Re: Never heard of it before [Re: fadetoblack64] #8648810 07/25/22 09:21 PM
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A few years ago they ate my watermelons from my garden. I got some revenge the next night

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I too have never heard of that

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Wow...learn something new everyday.


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Re: Never heard of it before [Re: fadetoblack64] #8648856 07/25/22 10:03 PM
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About a month ago I saw a doe eating pieces of a watermelon that was busted on the side of the road.
A lot of critters like things that are sweet and juicy.

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The coyotes will sniff the watermelons and find the ripe ones and actually jump on them with their front legs until they get through. A friend that grew them used to watch them do it, pretty tenacious critters.


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We had a Doberman that ate tomatoes. I fed one of my current dogs Granny Smith apple just the other day. It is certainly not what we’d think but canines will eat other food groups aside from meat.

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Yotes are opportunistic and will eat just about anything that won't eat them first. I have lots of TC pics of yotes eating corn at feeders.


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Bought a couple of cantelopes the other day. After cutting off the rind, I saw a couple of does standing outside. They didn't leave a single piece. All gone in a few minutes.



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Re: Never heard of it before [Re: fadetoblack64] #8649091 07/26/22 02:10 AM
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Most dogs I've owned have loved watermelon so I guess coyotes would too.

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My birddog ate my wife's watermelon she was growing a few years back. First watermelon she had ever grown and she was so proud..... she still curses that dog to this day.

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Coyotes will travel several miles to get in a watermelon or catalope patch no matter the conditions.
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Originally Posted by RattlesnakeDan
The coyotes will sniff the watermelons and find the ripe ones and actually jump on them with their front legs until they get through. A friend that grew them used to watch them do it, pretty tenacious critters.


Some of my watermelons were ready to pick but the coyote beat me to it.

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Apparently I need to hang a couple of watermelons with some treble hooks... bolt


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Yep, coyotes love watermelons. There are some huge watermelon farmers down South, their fields are prime yote hunting ground when the melons are in.

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Coyotes will eat just about anything. Watch a deer get inside a whole watermelon.....they love watermelons. I used to feed watermelon and cantaloupe rinds to deer in my yard years ago.


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My father-in-law lived outside Plainview, and that's how the melon farmers knew their melons were ripe - when the coyotes started eating them.

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If coyotes love melons and cantaloupes so much why does no one plant them to decoy them in for shooting? Dumb questions are thing I am good at so if this fits in the category of dumb questions I apologize ahead of time. grin

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Watermelon patches are great 'yote hunting. I used to set up a hide on the top of pump shack about 400 yds off. A 25-06 with 125gr Nosler partitions did the trick.

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Originally Posted by kry226
Yotes are opportunistic and will eat just about anything that won't eat them first. I have lots of TC pics of yotes eating corn at feeders.


Yep. I shot one in the field behind the house Monday that was eating grasshoppers! He was gouging on them.

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