deer dropping identification

[EatSleepFish]

i have heard from several sources that you can tell the gender of a deer from their droppings, they say a bucks is lumped together and a does/fawns is more scattered. Is this true?

[eyecrosser2000]

I've heard that pellet size may be an indicator. But, clumped pellets or scattered pellets usually reflect what the deer has been eating. Clumped droppings mean green stuff--grasses, leafy browse, forbes, etc. Scattered droppings mean browse such as twigs.

[harvey lee]

You can tell what a deer has been eating but not the sex of a deer from the size or shape of them.Mny people for years thought that you could tell and from all the research I have done I have never to this date found a article that stated you could.Maybe one day.