Goat droppings for a deer hunting cover scent?

I have heard that you can cover human scent on your boots by walking in a goat pen. Has anyone else heard of this? I don't know if this would spook the deer or if they would ignore it. i've heard that the deer and goats are closely related, and that their feeding habits are about the same making their droppings have a non-threatening smell.


I do know their droppings look the same. What do you think?Goat droppings for a deer hunting cover scent?
Any thing that will help mask human scent will work to a certain degree.It would be much better to have some goat stink on your boot then human stink.While deer can detect odor of any kind, most odor does not alarm them unless they associate the odor with humans. I have used persimmons in a net sack and mashed them up and hung it out of a persimmon tree that was dropping a few persimmons and deer were feeding on. I actually arrowed a doe as she was smelling the bag.I have gathered up honey locust beans and put them in a food processor and made a paste out of them and smeared it on a honey locust tree that had just a few beans dropping from it and arrowed a six point as he was licking it. If natural scent works to attract deer then a natural scent such as the goat will work in masking the human odor you may be putting out. I have also used fox urine in a deer trail that stopped the deer in it's tracks as he smelled it. That allowed me to take a bow shot at a deer standing still instead of walking. Go for it and let us know how it turned out. Good luck!Goat droppings for a deer hunting cover scent?
Think of it in this manor.





A deer is walking in woods, minding his own business, doing his thing. A little gust of wind and WHOA...where did the goat manure pile come from?





Even if they are related, it's not something they are used to smelling, especially if you cake it on your boots. The best way is scent elimination, which is actually impossible.





You dont' need to buy into the hype of all the carbon clothes and new fangled scent illumination products to keep yourself some what scent free. Anytime I used scent cover products that were not of the deer species it didn't end in a good thing. Caking on a lot of ';smells'; that are natural, but are unnatural b/c of how you use them or the amount you use them is not a good thing.





That being said, I do use whitetail deer lures to attract bucks to me. Drags work well if you drag them from your stand location once you arrive. Scenting up a drag a 100 yards away and walking to your stand will cause them to go the wrong way. They will follow the scent as it gets stronger. Also, notice I used ';whitetail deer lure';, not just deer lure. I'm friends with some deer lure manufacturers and some competitors will use ';deer'; lure..meaning not just whitetail, but fallow deer, etc...





Personally it sounds like a wives tale to me and I wouldn't try it.