Which critters eat the whole gut-pile.

[nycredneck]

I mean intestines, rectum… everything. I left two gut-piles side by side after successful Sat and Sun hunting sits'. Came back a week later and not a trace of anything, could not even tell there was a gut pile. I know the liver and heart ( which I tried but did not like ) were eaten and I could certainly understand those being gone but the intestines and all that crap inside them. You know that green stuff that comes out if you've made a bad shot, do they get drug away perhaps or does something eat that. Maybe Vultures??

[Haskell_Hunter]

Turkey vultures most likely. They should be the NJ state bird. I see them daily in the skies.

 

Possum and raccoons are also decent scavengers. I've thrown out fat cuttings from various things I've butchered and had a game camera on the pile. It attracts more possum than bears, usually as soon as it gets real dark out.

Edited November 19, 2014 by Haskell_Hunter

[Bucksnbows]

I have seen in no particular order the following animals eating deer guts over the years:

 

bear

fox (reds and grays)

mink

raccoon

opossum

coyote

domestic dogs

vultures (turkey and black)

Hawks

 

There may be others, but those come to mind.  I've seen a gut pile gone overnight and others that lasted a week or more.

[boomsox24]

We put a camera over a gut pile. A red fox walked by but didn't touch it. Next morning gut pile was destroyed by vultures not a spec left. In only a matter of minutes.

[nycredneck]

Yeah Vultures, thats what I thought, eating the intestines… yech!