Mouse dropping are hard after they have dried.
DEER MICE........yes
they smoked the buffalo meat then dried it up
Jerky
Yes they do. There is a disease called the Hantu virus that is spread by dried mouse droppings.
Fuel to make fires.
None it is dried piece of dung deposited by the American Bison
It can be. Histoplasmosis is a respiratory disease that may be fatal. It results from a fungus growing in dried bird droppings.
it was collected for heating houses
Buffalo chips are lumps of buffalo dung that have dried into a hard mass. They burn readily and cleanly and were often used by pioneers as an alternative to firewood when they crossed the Great Plains.
I think they would of dried it in the sun.
pulverized meat, dried cranberries, and fat