Buck and Doe POOP
 

Is there really a difference between buck and doe poop? Poeple say that buck poop is lumpy and that doe poop is little balls. It seems to me it should all be the same. I honestly can't think of any mammal that you can tell the sex by scoping out the poop!!!

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You can tell the difference. Same with turkeys. The larger the dropings, the larger the deer. Doe ussaly have small round droping, Like rabbits but only bigger. Bucks have more clumped pellets, but it really depends on what they eat.


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Yep, they say that buck poop is clumped and does poop pellets. Just like 3030 said, you can tell the difference between turkeys by their poop, J-poop=tom, other=jake of hen. So why not deer?

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Easy, buck taste like chocolate and doe taste like vanilla. Honest! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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I have read that the are both the same. The smaller the pellets the harder the food was to digest. It makes sense. Besides, I've seen gobbler poop that was no J-hooked. You never know until you know for sure.

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Letty let us put it this way, the buck I killed last year when I was field dressing him had little round pellets, there is a lot of talk of supposedly being able to tell, but it all depends upon what they are eating and not thier sex, but as Timbercruiser said &quot;buck taste like chocolate and doe taste like vanilla.&quot; A really big bucks will also be more crunchy, especially if he has been eating peanuts!

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And have you noticed, all deer seem to be able to digest corn ?!

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TIMBER, remind me not to EVER scout with you.

ELK, No, I didn't notice. I guess I'll have to look more closley next time I get the urge to go beyond simply identifying droppings as coming from a deer.

Seriously though (actually, Timber I was serious about that too), I've read 2 books on Whitetails that say the way the poop looks is dependant on the type of food eaten.

-A loose pile of pellets = eating regular forage plants
-A solid mass of pellets that stay stuck together = legumes like beans
-If there bite marks in it, then TimberCruiser has been there ahead of you.
-If it's been poked apart with a stick, Elkhunter is around somewhere.
-And if it looks really smooshed, wipe your boot off. You've gotten too close.



Keep 'em all in the Bull.

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By the way Letty, since this looks like your first post...
Welcome to the board. And good luck.

Keep 'em all in the Bull.

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I had heard that buck poop taste like chocolate, but the truth is doe poop only looks like chocolate;it taste like crap. And as far as telling them apart? Sometime time ago I suggested that you study your own crap,noting its shape and texture; now check out some female crap,noting the same. See any difference? If it's size only, then this just tells you which is the bigger ass it came from. Big crap,big deer;little crap, little deer,end of story. Clumped or pelleted might indicate what was eaten,but not the sex of the deer.

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Well, if size of poop is indicative to size of animal, why is it my 7 year old daughter can poop a freakin' toilet cobra?!?!?!?!? LOL

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I have to agree. You can't tell the sex by the droppings. It's all based on the food source.

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I've never been able to tell myself. All i know is if it's big droppings then it's a big deer and if it's small it's a small deer.

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I learned long ago that the type of scat is dependent on what they are feeding on. Deer are primarily browsers but they will take advantage of succulent spring grasses and any available alfalfa field.

Browse scat is always in pelets. Grazing scat will always be in clumps.

Elk on the other hand are primarily grazers. During the fall and into winter they too will browse. Clumpy during the grazing period, pellets during the browsing season.

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Sure there is a difference. It's easy to tell buck poop from doe poop.
Just use the chart below. The chart was downloaded from a polish website and is the most accurate I've seen.

<font size=2><font color=navy>Look and Feel of Dropping.... What it belongs to</font id=navy>

<font color=red>small, wet fuzzy look...... small, immature buck = pre-rut

large, dark black and shiny (soft)..... BIG, 10 pt that ate collard greens recently = full rut

small, dainty, soft, oblong shape..... small, immature doe = pre-rut

large, dainty, hard, perfectly round..... really large doe rabbit = in heat

large, oblong, hard and smells ok....... large doe (over 180 lbs) in estrous

large glob, loose, some undigested corn, smells awful..... probably from my brother in law
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See how easy it is???



Edited by - Crowpecker on 10/04/2002 14:34:39

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If you can spot the poop at the time of manufacture, it is easier to tell the sex of the deer. I have also heard that hormonal changes to bucks during the fall, tend to make their poop more clumpy.

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hey one thing you never do is show me a rabbit turd and tell me its chocolate it better be a rabbit turd.LOL

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Ive seen deer droppings the size of my fist. (clumped up) Right in the vicinity of a huge rub. but I have also watched a buck drop his mess and it wasnt in clumps. I think from experience that the clumps of deer droppings are from mature deer that bed most of the day. I also think that it depends on what there eating. I check this out when scouting. The color of the droppings usually give ya an idea of what there eating. and the size of the droppings can give ya a reason to hunt an area......... Good Luck to all this year

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Last night on the Babe Winkleman show (Oct 8) they had this information on their hunter trivia section. The main difference in doe and buck poop is that the bucks have a minimum of 75 pellets when they do the potty thing.........honest.

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If you can see it at its freshest you can really tell. I am talking as fresh as possible, as soon as it comes out of the deers butt. Look to see what is directly below the hole.
nuts= buck
another hole=doe.