Animal identification from droppings

[nicowilson]

What are these droppings please? They are clustered together. They're in an area where there are muntjac and roe. There may be rabbits. There are no sheep or cattle.

I've included a dog whistle for size reference.

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[bowji john]

It does look like sheep

Black when fresh. Can be formed as a compressed mass so each individual dropping appears angular

About 10 mm in diameter

No obvious smell

 

[potshotpat]

Domestic Pig or Wild Boar ???

 

[finnbear270]

What are the white inclusions?, I have seen fox scat that are like pellets after ingesting grain off the yard, Badger can leave stuff like these when not worm feeding.

 

[Alantoo]

Looks like herbivore/ruminant droppings to me, so I would say Roe or Muntjac. Too small for Fallow, and Rabbit rarely cluster...

Having just spent the morning looking at Fox poo and Badger latrines.... no trace of clustered pellet construction in either of those...

Alan

 

[Uncle f]

Roe buck. Too big for Muntie and male deer scat clumps together. However it does look very sheep to me but OP says no sheep there unless they’ve been removed recently

 

[Turkish]

The white bits look like fly blow.
With all of the fresh lush growth of recent weeks, poo clusters will be likely in deer and sheep.
My guess - and that is what it is - would be muntjac, on a very rich diet.

Please make sure you wash that whistle before you use it next.......

 

[nicowilson]

It does look like sheep

Black when fresh. Can be formed as a compressed mass so each individual dropping appears angular

About 10 mm in diameter

No obvious smell

Definitely not sheep, unless someone has a pet sheep on a lead.

 

[nicowilson]

Domestic Pig or Wild Boar ???

Unlikely unless someone has a pet on a lead.

 

[nicowilson]

What are the white inclusions?, I have seen fox scat that are like pellets after ingesting grain off the yard, Badger can leave stuff like these when not worm feeding.

I went back this afternoon to have a look but couldn't find the droppings. Sorry.

 

[nicowilson]

Looks like herbivore/ruminant droppings to me, so I would say Roe or Muntjac. Too small for Fallow, and Rabbit rarely cluster...

Having just spent the morning looking at Fox poo and Badger latrines.... no trace of clustered pellet construction in either of those...

Alan

No fallow. Apparently the soil is wrong for them.

 

[nicowilson]

Roe buck. Too big for Muntie and male deer scat clumps together. However it does look very sheep to me but OP says no sheep there unless they’ve been removed recently

Definitely no sheep

 

[nicowilson]

The white bits look like fly blow.
With all of the fresh lush growth of recent weeks, poo clusters will be likely in deer and sheep.
My guess - and that is what it is - would be muntjac, on a very rich diet.

Please make sure you wash that whistle before you use it next.......

Makes sense, and thank you for the advice about the whistle.

 

[potshotpat]

Bull !!

 

[reloader54]

"looks like that cheap muesli from the veggie shops,, it's probably from an anti",

 

[DavyG]

Definitely no sheep....?

 

[Coddy]

"looks like that cheap muesli from the veggie shops,, it's probably from an anti",

Chris Packham.

 

[Tom D]

If they’re really fresh roe droppings smell ‘deery’ when you break them open..

 

[Redneck]

I went back this afternoon to have a look but couldn't find the droppings. Sorry.

No **** !!!

 

[Highlandsjohn]

Try this one I picked up in the rape,being as how your's have gone..not a sheep and no it didn't do it on top of the 3" post ..View attachment 96644