The grouse roundworms are back!

[windywales]

hi, y'all
just finished cleaning a plump ruffed grouse i knocked over down in the skookumchuk region today, and, lo and behold, several 2-1/2" long, 1/32" thick white worms turned up in the carcass.  they were dead--stiff and unresponsive--but definitely residing in the bird, which otherwise seemed quite healthy, though dead (thanks to the .22 barrel on my little .22/410).  i haven't run into this before, though somebody commented on it in this forum a few years back.  according to the internet, grouse become more vulnerable to roundworms when it's dry--what?  in the great northwet?  can anybody say "climate change?"
mind yer topknots!
windy


sonny whar i growed up "magnum" wuz another word for "lousy hunter"!

[Timberstalker]

Are you a relative of Cryder?

[windywales]

nope

[Thehowler]

I haven't ran into any of that in the  birds on the west side this year.

[Jonathan_S]

Never noticed worms in grouse on either side of the state...pics?

[pianoman9701]

Are they in the meat or the cavity, or both?

[Squidward]

Are they in the meat or the cavity, or both?

[mdbuck5x5]

Never noticed worms in grouse on either side of the state...pics?

  I've ran into them in snowshoes but never grouse! Crazy stuff.