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Moose tags
« on: June 13, 2012, 06:46:49 AM »
For anyone with moose tags this year you need to be aware of the potential for the tape worm cycts.  My Selkirk bull last year had them.  I didnt know until I got home and started to process the meat.  After discovering them (lots of them) I did tons of research and spoke to several knowledgable people about them.  The facts as presented to me showed they do not affect humans.  You just need to be aware of them so you can make the decision whether you want to consume the meat.  Most butchers I have spoken with had not ever seen them.  My bull had several hundred and they were spread throughout the meat.  We chose to eat the meat but made everything into burger except the backstrap.  We cut every piece into 1/8" strips so we could get rid of them and then ground it.  Processing was a nightmare, we still found some in the burger.
In the pics the size of the cysts are about the size of your pinky fingernail and they have tail like things hanging off the end about 1/2" long.  Not exactly what anyone wants to sit down and eat for dinner.
From the research I did it appears that these are just now showing up because they are being transmitted by the wolf.  I hope no one gets an animal with them this year, however any deer, elk or moose can get them. 

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2012, 07:12:26 AM »
Thanks for posting that. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't draw a moose tag! 


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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2012, 07:15:52 AM »
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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2012, 07:20:48 AM »
That is some nasty sh!t.  I'd be pissed.   Waiting all those years for a tag and then it has worms.

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2012, 07:34:57 AM »
Hope that does not work over into the deer or elk herds.  :(
I did not see any worms in my 2008 selkrk moose.
Thanks for posting.

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2012, 07:45:46 AM »
No worms in our Mt Spokane cow moose last year.  None in my Idaho moose either.
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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2012, 08:08:47 AM »
Looks like some prime marbleing in the meat to me. :drool:  :dunno::chuckle:

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2012, 09:36:41 AM »
thanks for the update,  guess all i can do is hunt hard and try and kill a big trophy and worry about them later but appreciate the heads up!!

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2012, 09:41:39 AM »
Yet another reason to kill wolves.........
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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2012, 11:10:16 AM »
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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2012, 11:12:50 AM »
Thanks for posting that. Now I'm kind of glad I didn't draw a moose tag!



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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2012, 11:22:43 AM »
I thought I had seen in the NW Sportsmans magazine that one guy last year presented the meat to the WDFW and they gave him another tag.  Never followed up on that though.
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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2012, 01:40:13 PM »
Thanks for posting this information.  Somehow I was not aware of the link to wolves.  I found a few more details here:

http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2010/01/06/two-thirds-of-idaho-wolf-carcasses-examined-have-thousands-of-hydatid-disease-tapeworms/

Sounds like much thought wasn't given to the disease carrying aspect when they  reintroduced them.

If you're a wolf, it's a great tool to slow your prey down a little, or maybe a lot.

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2012, 03:39:10 PM »
My 49DN Bull in 2010 didn't have any.

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Re: Moose tags
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2012, 03:48:23 PM »
Thanks for PM.  My family's two Selkirk bull moose looked just like that!  The younger bull had less cysts, and weirdly nothing in the tenderloin.  This was 2005 and 2009. 

 


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