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Found at Maggie's HQ. I told Mrs. BD that it looked like Mountain Sheep scat. I put a medium pine cone there for sizing.

Any ideas? I know some things it's not, but I do not know what it is.

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Take my advice please. Back away, don't run but don't tarry. Be as quiet as you can. Put as much distance as you can away from that area.

#1 Pete Parks on 2014-07-22 05:50 (Reply)

Black bear

#2 Michael on 2014-07-22 05:53 (Reply)

I doubt that. Seen lots of bear poop.

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2014-07-22 06:05 (Reply)

Was there another pile of toilet paper nearby?

#3 mike on 2014-07-22 06:21 (Reply)

Domestic pig seems to be the closest match from Peterson Animal Tracks "common form in which pellets are retained in a mass"

Not my field though.

#4 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-07-22 06:33 (Reply)

Extermely unlikely here.

#4.1 Bird Dog on 2014-07-22 06:39 (Reply)

Wild boar, then. That's some weird shit. Any empty Budweiser cans nearby?

#5 Matt on 2014-07-22 07:37 (Reply)

Tear it apart, see what it's been eating. Looks like a short critter.

#6 Matt on 2014-07-22 07:46 (Reply)

Just grey-brown, with no identifiable ingredients! No fur in it, no seeds, no grass, just like photo.

#6.1 Bird Dog on 2014-07-22 07:49 (Reply)

I'm going with fresh turkey. Thanksgiving should be easier this year.

#7 Matt on 2014-07-22 08:12 (Reply)

Probably deer. In the summer when their diet contains a lot of moisture their scat can be soft clumps like this instead of pellets. If the general texture is amorphous and fully digested w/o any visible hair or seeds, that indicates an ungulate diet like that of a deer.

#8 SmartDogs on 2014-07-22 08:30 (Reply)

Possible. Never seen deer poo like that before. It does look ungulate.

#8.1 Bird Dog on 2014-07-22 09:02 (Reply)

Are there currently any disputes between yourselves and your neighbors?
Did you stiff the pizza delivery guy (gal, undecided-didn't mean to be exclusionary)?

Your website is unique in many ways.
Way 1: I can't think of another website I frequent where they would show a pile of shit and ask where it came from. This is classic "stuff". LMAO

#9 Igy on 2014-07-22 09:03 (Reply)

Igy makes a great point. Maggie's Farm is certainly unique. That's why I stop by every day. Thanks for the entertainment.

#9.1 altered states on 2014-07-22 11:54 (Reply)

The power of caffeine has made apparent these are a series of pancaked-plops instead of the long spirals my lying eyes saw earlier. Still a petty big dump. No rhino around?

#10 Matt on 2014-07-22 09:35 (Reply)

Looks like calf poop to me.

#11 feeblemind on 2014-07-22 10:17 (Reply)

Wait! I see a four leaf clover. It leprechaun poop!

#12 Pete Parks on 2014-07-22 10:24 (Reply)

My first thought is ruminant also, ploppy from wet diet or parasites (or the hormones of giving birth). It strikes me as a large volume for a sheep. Do you get moose? Or maybe the pine cone isn't a very good indicator for scale? On second thought looking at the senicio and clover I'll agree with sheep.

#13 ama on 2014-07-22 10:58 (Reply)

Not Bear. Any Elk around?

#14 annieoakley on 2014-07-22 11:21 (Reply)

Ben & Jerry's?

#15 Mystery Meat on 2014-07-22 11:34 (Reply)

Sorry about that. Couldn't wait.

#16 Bruce on 2014-07-22 11:45 (Reply)

BD,
Can we expect a different photo weekly to identify?
I think your on to something big.

#17 Igy on 2014-07-22 12:08 (Reply)

Well, an animal that large probably can't fly, so I'd look for tracks in the vicinity.

#18 Smitty on 2014-07-22 13:06 (Reply)

Is there an Occupy Wall Street group in your area??? (Of course, they'd have to be in some sort of time warp, since it was only created to help Obama in 2012.)

#19 Toad on 2014-07-22 13:07 (Reply)

Could be a large, older doe or even a old buck. The older a deer gets the larger the scat, especially in a doe that has dropped several fawns.

#20 PYDOG on 2014-07-22 13:10 (Reply)

I have no idea. I don't know S### about S###. This thread reminds me of the song Cow Patti. "Gotta watch your step when you know the chips are down."

When I was little, we had an Irish setter named Copper. For years, I assumed he had been named for his color. Turns out some wag named him Copper as an alternate form of coprolite, which I am informed is the term for fossilized feces.

#21 Gringo on 2014-07-22 14:53 (Reply)

Sell it on EBAY, then go buy bourbon.

#22 The Pygmy Rattler on 2014-07-22 18:43 (Reply)

I would say elk or possibly moose. #8 Smartdogs was on to something. When there's a lot of moisture in thier diet elk and moose scat looks like this. My second guess would boar or pig. Where geographically is this located? New England?

#23 vichris on 2014-07-22 23:29 (Reply)

New England.

Too small for Moose. My guess, based on all of the input, is a buck with diarrhea.

#24 Bird Dog on 2014-07-23 05:53 (Reply)

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