B.S. question

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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well not exactly B.S. .... but I was just thinking about the various types of animal dung I'e seen or heard about people using to aid with fires like ..elephant or buffalo or cow etc and I got to wondering about species that are more localized to my area like dried whitetail or even pocupine dropping they seem like they have similar consistancies to the others is there any validity to this at all? has anyone tried it? I know it's probably a dumb question but why not... Thanks.
 
i live in the hoosier state lots of deer i've heard the tale of deer dun burning but there are so may other type of fuel's in the wood here i haven't tryed it. i has seen pepole us buffalo chips for fire fuel before they worked very well. i think gathering deer pellets would be a lot of work with little rewards.
 
well we learned in school they used buffalo "chips" in the west for fire fuel because they were abundant ,also they burned smokeless so the Native Americans used them if they were being pursued by the U.S army or local police I'm not sure if you could use whitetail or porcupine because it might be something the animals eat and in the west the dung would dry in the sun and air instead of just being on the ground in wet conditions like in new england so most likely, no you probably couldn't use that dung but you should try anyways good idea though
 
I agree it'd probably be more effort than it's worth but I'm wondering more out of curiosity than anything else..guess i'll have to try it
 
Most of the moose and deer pellets I have seen are usually heavily laden with wood chips. If you busted them up I wonder what would happen. I have never tried using them as fuel but its a great question. I will have to try this at some point because it an interesting question.

KR
 
horse and cow cakes

last camping trip the mosquitos were murder , the kids and I gathered up a pile of dried out cow cakes and stuck them on the fire

they burned OK , not huge flame but smoldering coal , made a fair bit of smoke and seemed to keep the mozzie numbers down some

not a great idea for cooking with , better used after cooking is done with ordinary wood , IMHO

roo poo works OK but there is usually no volume of it around to be used , but horse and cows leave literally heaps if you follow the stock routes here .
 
Nomadic Mongolians cook their food over animal dung. I saw it on an eppisode of Ray Mears world of survival. It burns like charcoal.
 
I'm guessing it's best to use herbivore dung and avoid the carnovire droppings. :eek:
 
It needs to be dry and just about all the cultures who live with ruminates and no wood have used it for fuel. It isn't like a crackling hardwood fire, that's for darn sure. I'd put it in the "better than nothing at all" category.
 
I've burned very dry horse crap in a large coffee can (set up to burn wood etc). It burns like charcoal, little smoke once going, and hot.
 
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