Oldtimr

Topgun 3006

Makes you wonder how many people have actually been out in the woods hunting doesn't it?

Ridge Runner

call it ever what you want, the coon won't care.
RR

alleyyooper

Don't need to be hunting, just walk in the woods.
I have seen the deer in the first of springs green up with it running down there back legs it is so soupy coming out. Also when th second cutting is just a few inches high and corn waist high.

Al

rockport

Not deer droppings IMO.

Clumps are normal but they don't look like that from my experience.

archeryelk1

Looks like something that's been eating protein to me.

Topgun 3006

And just what do you think the green matter than deer eat contains? Answer---Protein! When they eat a lot of alfalfa and other similar moist, green crops it is very normal for them to leave big clumps of droppings like this. When there is a heavy rain it can do exactly what the OP picture looks like and sometimes if they are also eating other materials like browse it can be clumps where you can see the start of where pellets were being formed. Obviously none of us can be 100% positive of the OP picture because we didn't see the individual animal go poop, LOL, but with decades in the woods some of us have a pretty good idea after having seen many different droppings at various times of the year. In the winter when deer are on a hard, woody browse diet they definitely produce hard, individual pellets as compared to when they are eating very moist, soft crops during the warm months. Some fescue and grasses they consume will only have 5 to 9 percent protein content while a crop of alfalfa may have upwards of 20%. I've watched many a deer in the late summer feeding on moist alfalfa and soybeans and they are literally drooling green out of their mouths and about the same comes out the rearend to varying degrees after it's digested. As another member stated, generally the bigger the clump the bigger the deer was that left it behind.

sachiko

We scout all year round and we've seen that.

the blur

Now post a picture of Coyote scat, and compare them.

alleyyooper

I think with all the deer of all sizes that hang out in and around my yard and in the woods, I walk thru twice daily with my dog. I know what a deer's poop pile looks like fresh about any time of the year and how it changes it's look over the days and months it lays there.

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