Wednesday, May 12, 2010

What do squirrels eat (hunting)?

can squirrels eat apples and can some one give me a list of what squirrels can eat.What do squirrels eat (hunting)?
Yes the little buggers eat apples. The best method for hunting tree rats would be to go deer hunting, as I've noticed they aren't scared by 30-06 rifles. However when I go out with my son actually looking for them with a 22 they are scarce! I'll sit in an orchard by the house waiting for deer and they run right up to me. I'll watch them grab apples all day. I did shoot one a couple of years ago with my 300 savage, he learned his lesson. They eat pinecones, corn, acorns, you name it. You might get one to sound off by rubbing a couple of quarters together to mimic another squirrel eating.What do squirrels eat (hunting)?
Squirrels are fuzzy tailed rats and will eat most anything they can find to chew up and swallow! There is a reason folks call them tree rats. I regularly shoot them off the compost heap, the cattle feeders and the protein tubs. Last weekend, one got in the feed room and chewed holes in four or five sacks of range cubes...fatal mistake...he's in the freezer now...Hunt for them where ever the food source is at that time. If the pecans are ready, hunt the pecan bottoms. If the peaches are ripe, the peach orchard. If natural food sources are scarce (winter time or drought conditions) look to livestock feeding places or bird feeders.


They have preferences, but are highly adaptable and will eat what is available to them.
They may eat apples but here is a list of more common foods. I've found that they really like acorns and beechnuts whenever I have hunted them.


The Eastern Gray Squirrel consumes a variety of foods such as inner tree bark, various seeds and acorns, walnuts, and other nuts found in the forests.
well, they eat apples up north here in canada because they have stored a bundle in my old shed here.


squirrels literally eat everything that's edible, from bark to seeds, from eggs to bugs, they eat everything.


but their favorites are apples, acorns and evergreen cones.
down here in south Georgia, they eat pecans, acorns, sunflower seeds, apples, pears, wild pears, corn, wild berries, pine cones- and when they are still green too, and they 'steal' from momma's bird feeder lol





they also love chewing on Christmas decorations too lol


and if you have any burlap bags around, you better expect a few holes in em too





they also love to chew on boxes- practically anything they can get into their mouths, they'll chew up and eat





true story: we had a HUGE cardboard box in a storage area and them critters managed to get in the storage area and they chewed a hole in the box just big enough for em to fit in and by the time winter was over with, the box was over half full of acorns-- no lie either!


them critters are very forgetful too lol
They like corn. You can use the same as you use for baiting deer.
Sunflower seeds.....we through out some bird seed for the birds and it had sunflower seeds in it and they ate the sunflower seeds.
mostly nuts, seed,grain. and fruit if its around. Squirrels eat a bug now and again too
mostly nuts and seeds.....apples if nothing else around....also corn (which is seed)
Primarily nuts and seeds and as well fruit.
corn, acorns

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