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Coyotes around Vinyards?
« on: December 26, 2013, 10:48:23 AM »
I hunted around Apple Orchards and saw a lot of coyote scat with apple peelings in it.  I was wondering if anyone hunting around grape vinyards has seen coyote scat with grape skins in it.  I ask because a friend told me that one grape can kill a dog.  Coyotes are just dogs, so if that was true, there should be dead coyotes all around vinyards if they are eating the grapes.  This was news to me, because my dog and I ate lots of grapes...  :dunno:
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2013, 10:53:04 AM »
In large amounts grapes can cause kidney failure. If the dog eats one or two by accident I don't think it will hurt him.

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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2013, 11:09:48 AM »
Interesting.  I never knew that.  I used to eat a bunch of grapes, and if I didn't give my dog every 3rd or 4th grape, she would get mad.  Never saw any ill effects.  Is there a difference between red grapes and green grapes?  :dunno:
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2013, 11:16:29 AM »
Both my lab and pointer would both eat huge amounts of grapes during late summer that adorned our back fence. One lived to 13 and one 14 years old. Never new that about grapes. My buddy is a farm manager for a large farm/winery outside or Prosser. He says the Coyotes eat the crap out of grapes, during certain parts of the year.

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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2013, 11:22:22 AM »
I had no idea. Maybe that explains why my GSP is so nuts!  She loves grapes. If you do a little research, it appears that raisins and grapes are both pretty toxic.
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2013, 11:34:17 AM »
Ever feel like the world has left you behind?

Both of my dogs lived to 15 years old, and loved grapes!  :dunno:

Of course, when I was young, you never heard of Alzheimers, or people being allergic to wheat, and all the other modern ailments.  I think it's all the chemicals on everything since WW II.... :sry:
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2013, 08:48:34 PM »
We are doin a job at Paterson for a vineyard, needless to say after talkin to the field help the dogs do thousands of dollars in damage a year to the vines themselves. Needless to say I got permission pretty easy. The few times I've hunted it after work I've got a dog in. When the winters are tough coyotes will eat fruit. Apple's,grapes,cherrys. What ever they can get. Cow pies are full of nutrients. If you can gain access orchards & vineyards are great setups.
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2013, 08:58:49 PM »
 :yeah: 

I have seen a ton of coyotes in and around orchards and vineyards in the winter.  I can't say I have ever seen grapes in a steaming pile but I don't doubt for one second they will eat them. Something definitely attracts them to vineyard from what I have seen.  I don't know if it's the grapes, rodents, or a since of security with all the rows...  :dunno: 

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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2013, 09:58:21 PM »
Coyotes also love asparagus seed.  The scat piles here always have lots of red berries in them.  During sweet corn season they also like corn on the cob.

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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2013, 10:36:53 PM »
We are doin a job at Paterson for a vineyard, needless to say after talkin to the field help the dogs do thousands of dollars in damage a year to the vines themselves. Needless to say I got permission pretty easy. The few times I've hunted it after work I've got a dog in. When the winters are tough coyotes will eat fruit. Apple's,grapes,cherrys. What ever they can get. Cow pies are full of nutrients. If you can gain access orchards & vineyards are great setups.

I heard they like to chew on the plastic irrigation pipes, too, causing a lot of expensive damage...
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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2013, 01:17:35 PM »
Coyotes also love asparagus seed.  The scat piles here always have lots of red berries in them.  During sweet corn season they also like corn on the cob.

Corn cobs are also bad for dogs

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Re: Coyotes around Vinyards?
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2013, 01:34:25 PM »
We are doin a job at Paterson for a vineyard, needless to say after talkin to the field help the dogs do thousands of dollars in damage a year to the vines themselves. Needless to say I got permission pretty easy. The few times I've hunted it after work I've got a dog in. When the winters are tough coyotes will eat fruit. Apple's,grapes,cherrys. What ever they can get. Cow pies are full of nutrients. If you can gain access orchards & vineyards are great setups.

I heard they like to chew on the plastic irrigation pipes, too, causing a lot of expensive damage...
yes they chew the heck out of the small plastic at the pivot,,,,,dirt nap when busted

 


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