Next Level Scouting

[cnelk]

I don’t think this has been discussed before so here’s a question:

During the hunting season you find fresh elk CHit or fresh elk piss.

Now, the question is how long is the digestive system of an elk?

How long ago did they eat or drink to leave their Chit or piss that you came across?

Thoughts?

 

[Still Hunter]

Fresh piss is fresh piss. Fresh poop is fresh poop.

However, there is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on a potentially several factors, including the type of food the elk has eaten and each individual elk’s digestive system. However, it is generally thought that it takes around 24 to 36 hours for an elk to digest its food. Elk actually have four stomachs, each has a separate function and that is why it takes so long for the digestive process for food to run through an elks digestive system.

Eating a few milk duds in front of your hunting buddies when, "sampling" fresh dung to state how many hours old it is can be entertaining.

Google is your friend...

 

[MuleyFever]

Fresh piss is fresh piss. Fresh poop is fresh poop.

However, there is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on a potentially several factors, including the type of food the elk has eaten and each individual elk’s digestive system. However, it is generally thought that it takes around 24 to 36 hours for an elk to digest its food. Elk actually have four stomachs, each has a separate function and that is why it takes so long for the digestive process for food to run through an elks digestive system.

Google is your friend...

While what you say about the digestive time may be true it does not give the answer to the question as an elk does not only poop or pee once every 24-36 hours. They are browsing so they are eating often and constantly digesting. The answer lies in the time between the digestive system cycle from evacuation to evacuation. A quick google serch tells us an elk poops up to 10 times a day. So every 2.4 hours.

 

[Still Hunter]

While what you say about the digestive time may be true it does not give the answer to the question as an elk does not only poop or pee once every 24-36 hours. They are browsing so they are eating often and constantly digesting. The answer lies in the time between the digestive system cycle from evacuation to evacuation. A quick google serch tells us an elk poops up to 10 times a day. So every 2.4 hours.

No argument in your statement on how often they "evacuate" their colon. I did not interpret the question as to being how often do they poop.

I simply answered the question ..."Now, the question is how long is the digestive system of an elk?"

Fresh poop is fresh poop. LOL!

 

[MuleyFever]

No argument in your statement on how often they "evacuate" their colon. I did not interpret the question as to being how often do they poop.

I simply answered the question ..."Now, the question is how long is the digestive system of an elk?"

Fresh poop is fresh poop. LOL!

So if we want to know if sign is freah the relevant question is not how long is the digestive cycle but how long between evacuations.

 

[squirrel]

Are you asking how long ago this poop hit the ground or when did mr elk first chew this grass that is now poop? Lots of variables in the latter. Hanging out with my llamas which are very similar critters they really shove it in when in good chow. And almost immediately they start pooping non stop. Within 24-36 hrs they have the squirts and are pooping cow pies instead of pellets. Especially when they hit alpine tundra in summer

 

[Gerbdog]

When the elk eat the grass they exist in a single moment in space and time while they effect their surroundings... the grass.

As the grass passes through their digestive system it creates a warp in space and time, as such, when the shit exits the other end in the solid form of shit and in the time that it takes for that solid form to hit the ground the elk exist in two separate moments in space and time all at once....

They are either there when the shit hits the ground.... or.... as is my experience.... they cease to exist when the shit hits the ground....

Which leads to me, the hunter, finding fresh elk shit, and finding no elk around for miles.

Schrodingers Elk - or - made up bullshit

 

[TaperPin]

Schroedingers Elk

 

[Subliminal1]

No argument in your statement on how often they "evacuate" their colon. I did not interpret the question as to being how often do they poop.

I simply answered the question ..."Now, the question is how long is the digestive system of an elk?"

I'm just going off the article below, which uses moo cow calves... soo yah not sure how close this gets us but the digestive system for an elk is probably over 150ft long, post mortem.

the length of the intestine of calves and its bearing on the absorption ... https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(40)92833-8/pdf

 

[LaFever]

elk chew their cud similar to cattle and my belief is that , during the combined rifle season , they chew their cud to hold them over for the first couple days of hunting. trying to track elk or key on elk by looking for poop and pee is not significant because one only has 5 days to hunt. the hunter should find the elk , actually see live animals even if they're 2 to 5 miles away with binoculars , then move to set up your stalk.
you either see, hear, or smell elk to find them. i have found a group of cow elk's bed where they have all stood up at the same time , voided their bowels and bladder and walked back up the hill or mountain really. It smells exactly mowing the grass , putting the clippings in a black garbage bag and letting it ferment in the hot sun for a couple of days, smells like a stable.
the hunter needs to plan on staying out all day during the 5 days of hunting and finding the elk , then try to get close for a shot

 

[MallardSX2]

I only hunt where I find fresh elk semen.

Preferably, still steaming.