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Title:The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:SALEM::PAPPALARDO
Created:Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1561
Total number of notes:17784

819.0. "DEER DUNG" by CREVAS::OUELLETTE () Wed Oct 24 1990 11:03

OK  It's silly but better safe than sorry.

I've heard there's a virus/bacteria in deer droppings than can attack the brain 
of some animals if they contract it. Since I usually squeeze droppings to see
how fresh they are is there any chance there's a problem? If so that would 
explain a lot of things my wife's been complaining about!!! :-)
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819.1use a stickFSTTOO::OTOOLEsoprano's do it HIGHERWed Oct 24 1990 11:103
    i usually poke at it with a stick, to see how freshh it is.
    
    
819.2deadly wormDNEAST::MAHANEY_MIKEWed Oct 24 1990 11:427
         Actually it this brain worm that kills a number of moose every
    year. When moose move into a area populated with deer the deer do not
    always get pushed out. The brain worm is carried from the deer to the
    moose through the deer droppings when ground slugs feast on the
    droppings and climb the trees, then the moose eats the trees therefore  
    become infested with the disease.
    
819.3Thought They Were RaisinettsPCCAD1::RICHARDJBluegrass,Music Aged to PerfectionWed Oct 24 1990 11:463
    Looks like deer shit, smells like deer shit, taste like deer shit.
    
    It is deer shit !
819.4Had a shit eating grin!WJOUSM::PAPPALARDOWed Oct 24 1990 12:239
    
    I once took a handful of rasins and said to the guy's I was hunting
    with, from a distance of 10ft or so:
    
    I wonder if these dropings are fresh, then popped them into my mouth,
    A-yup there fresh alright. Should of seen the looks on their faces.
    
    Rick
    
819.5r u shur it was raisins?ODIXIE::RHARRISWed Oct 24 1990 13:505
    How do you know they were raisins?  Maybe someone pulled  atrick on
    you.  
    
    bob
    
819.6WJOUSM::PAPPALARDOWed Oct 24 1990 13:545
    
    Believe me when I tell you Bob, They were raisins!
    
    Rick