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What is the “life cycle” of scat?

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What is the “life cycle” of deer droppings? How long do they actually stick around before they turn to dust? At what point to they turn white and then grey? I understand this is variable do to conditions of the environment they are in, but in general what can one expect? I’m finding areas with a lot of older sign, but very little fresh sign. I’m wondering if this is built up over years from a few deer, or if the deer have just moved on to another area and now it’s just a spot that they travel through?

 

Thanks,

Steve

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Honestly you answered your own question.  It is variable to conditions and environment. 

What species are you trying to find and in what unit? What's the terrain like?

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46 minutes ago, CatfishKev said:

Honestly you answered your own question.  It is variable to conditions and environment. 

What species are you trying to find and in what unit? What's the terrain like?

Coues in lower 21. Also want to know for searching for sheds later in the year. To see if there is a way to tell how old the scat is to determine if it would be from around shed season

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You guys talking shoot wtf lol

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I said shoot and it changed it to shoot what the heck.  

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Ok my pro noun is now shoot what a bunch of xxxx!

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21 hours ago, oz31p said:

IMO, once the scat looses the bitterness it’s too old to worry about 

The old taste test, yummy.

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21 hours ago, Steve90 said:

Coues in lower 21. Also want to know for searching for sheds later in the year. To see if there is a way to tell how old the scat is to determine if it would be from around shed season

Coues have a small home range, 1.5 to 2 miles squared.  So the bucks will be close enough.  Look for clumpy buck turds rather then pellets to start.  Also focus on north facing slopes and drainages and cuts, basically shady spots deer will bed.  But the best thing you could probably do is glass the areas you are interested in. Tripod plus binos and just look and see what the deer in that area are doing.  

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59 minutes ago, CatfishKev said:

Coues have a small home range, 1.5 to 2 miles squared.  So the bucks will be close enough.  Look for clumpy buck turds rather then pellets to start.  Also focus on north facing slopes and drainages and cuts, basically shady spots deer will bed.  But the best thing you could probably do is glass the areas you are interested in. Tripod plus binos and just look and see what the deer in that area are doing.  

Yes, I’m familiar with how to find deer in general, I am asking if a lot of old sign and little fresh sign is an indication of a large group of deer that stoped using that particular spot, or if it could be from a smaller group of deer and the sign has just built up over years. 

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