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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: kendra.t17 on January 12, 2023, 08:10:20 AM

Title: We’ve butchered over 50 animals and have never seen this…
Post by: kendra.t17 on January 12, 2023, 08:10:20 AM: This was found in Idaho whitetail buck meat while we were butchering it. It was surrounded by meat, and was right next to the tenderloin. Fish and game said the buck was negative for CWD. Any ideas as to what this is? It looked like an avocado pit.
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Post by: Buckhunter24 on January 12, 2023, 08:20:15 AM: Nothing good
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Post by: KFhunter on January 12, 2023, 08:23:32 AM: It's avocado dip, get some chips!
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Post by: steeleywhopper on January 12, 2023, 08:25:26 AM: Could be a broadhead or a bullet? I killed the bull in my Avatar and it had 10 inches of a busted arrow in him and the broadhead was covered in a cartilage shell similar to what you are holding in your hand.
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Post by: Jason on January 12, 2023, 08:27:06 AM: :puke:. That's not good!
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Post by: Angry Perch on January 12, 2023, 08:37:01 AM: Did you dissect it to see if there is anything inside?
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Post by: ctwiggs1 on January 12, 2023, 08:41:23 AM: As the others have said, I'd put on some gloves and cut it up. My bull from a few years ago had a third of it's backstrap present as chocolate pudding. After a little digging I found a broadhead. Pretty sure he also was hit by a car at one point.
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Post by: ganghis on January 12, 2023, 08:43:21 AM: Google 'cysts in meat' - looks like that to me, though as what kind of cyst I couldn't tell you!
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Post by: 2MANY on January 12, 2023, 09:41:08 AM: Looks like a speck of copper on your thumb nail?

I'm going with last years wound.
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Post by: Mudman on January 12, 2023, 09:44:07 AM: :puke: dissect it..
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Post by: nwwanderer on January 12, 2023, 09:59:14 AM: Abscess, normal nasty. Endless posibilities
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Post by: pianoman9701 on January 12, 2023, 10:04:29 AM: Quote from: ganghis on January 12, 2023, 08:43:21 AM
Google 'cysts in meat' - looks like that to me, though as what kind of cyst I couldn't tell you!

That was my first thought.
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Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on January 12, 2023, 10:12:43 AM: There are no reports of transmission from harvested deer to hunters, and properly handled and thoroughly cooked game meat is safe to eat.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/diseases/abcesses
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Post by: phildobaggins on January 12, 2023, 10:37:43 AM: That's downright disgusting!
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Post by: Born2late on January 12, 2023, 10:54:12 AM: My Idaho deer had similar this year. It was an infection in its right ear down through the gland in the neck. Tested negative for cwd also.
I see infections like that quite often on beavers that have bite marks.
I think it just a nasty old infection.
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Post by: buckfvr on January 12, 2023, 11:24:30 AM: I dont think Ive ever been hungry enough to eat something that looks like that.
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Post by: boneaddict on January 12, 2023, 11:40:06 AM: If you’d have taken to the butcher, you may never have known it was there. Lol
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Post by: elkboy on January 12, 2023, 11:51:02 AM: Quote from: nwwanderer on January 12, 2023, 09:59:14 AM
Abscess, normal nasty. Endless posibilities

:yeah: Nice-looking green pus. Mmmmm.
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Post by: Caseyd on January 12, 2023, 12:03:15 PM: I knew better then to click on this at lunch :bash:
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on January 12, 2023, 01:00:01 PM: Toss it and a healthy distance around it. Then enjoy the rest of your deer.
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on January 12, 2023, 01:12:51 PM: Quote from: blackveltbowhunter on January 12, 2023, 01:00:01 PM
Toss it and a healthy distance around it. Then enjoy the rest of your deer.

:yeah:
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Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on January 12, 2023, 01:47:30 PM: An old wound of some kind. I shot an elk in the Naselle area, and when we skinned it, we noticed a small hole with white stuff coming out of a shoulder. It had the consistency of toothpaste. When we started cutting it up, there was a fist sized pocket of the stuff, between the shoulder blade and the rib cage. And in the middle of it all was a 50 caliber maxi ball.
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Post by: GASoline71 on January 12, 2023, 02:46:19 PM: Shot a cow elk during muzzleloader season up in the Umtanum one year. Large pocket of guacamole dip up on the back strap above the shoulder. Turned out to be a broadhead wedged in her spine with an inch of arrow shaft still attached. We cut out the nastiness (stunk like hell) and processed her like normal. She ate just fine... :tup:

Gary
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Post by: Hankbest17 on January 13, 2023, 10:28:00 AM: Thanks for all the feedback!! We tossed all the meat around it (unfortunately even the tenderloin) and we’re going to eat as normal!