Deer Meet Problem?
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: ChasingFAHL
18-Nov-18
Both of the back quarters on my buck are like this. Has anyone ever seen it before? He also had a head injury that I assume was from fighting and there was about 10oz of puss inside of that wound.
From: ChasingFAHL
18-Nov-18
From: midwest
18-Nov-18
So it looks like it's just on the fat and silverskin? Weird.
From: Kodiak
18-Nov-18
Nasty.
From: ChasingFAHL
18-Nov-18
The best I can tell it is but i have cleaned close to 100 deer and never seen this before.
From: Boreal
18-Nov-18
Hit by a car?
From: oldtimer
18-Nov-18
Looks like measles, I have seen beef that looks like this and they had measles
From: standswittaknife
18-Nov-18
From my dad whose been a food biologist and meat inspector for the usda for 30 years
“That’s called tikeation. Can be caused by several things. Sickness that it’s getting over. Sometimes extremely stressed will cause it. Same thing can happen in people that’s why you don’t want to be stressed for a long time. Nothing that will cause illness as long as internal organs look ok. If it’s only in the fat then trim and ok to eat but if in the meat it’s probably ok but I wouldn’t eat it because chances are it has recently just gotten over being really sick”
From: Will tell
18-Nov-18
I'd only eat that if I was starving.
From: KsRancher
18-Nov-18
I have never seen anything like that on a deer. But when we butcher hogs and if you skin them really close to the hide, it looks like that. If you take some fat with hide, usually don't see it.
From: ChasingFAHL
18-Nov-18
Thanks everyone! My brother in law is a butcher as well and said that it was probably from stress and was on the fence about if i should or shouldn't eat it. Probably going to pass since I have two little kids in the house.
From: Dave B
18-Nov-18
From: Overland
18-Nov-18
If you contact your local wildlife officer and show him/her, you will likely receive a new deer tag.
From: Hunting5555
23-Nov-18
In all my years of butchering our families deer, I've never seen anything like that either....
I've seen nasty pockets of fluid, holes from antlers, etc., but never that.
From: Bou'bound
23-Nov-18
Run from that fast as you can
From: newfi1946moose
23-Nov-18
I seem to possibly recall seeing something like that in caribou who were diseased. We left them right there on the tundra somewhere around 2003 or 2004. Do not touch...get new tag from CO.
From: Quailhunter
23-Nov-18
Not worth risk IMO
From: Bou'bound
23-Nov-18
Curious why the DNR would offer another tag. They set limits based on management of the herd through harvest. That was accomplished with the kill. The use of the meat is not a right it is an ancillary benefit. Why should they allow more harvests because the meat was inedible.
I know it is just one animal and there are 10s of thousands taken but the principle is curious
From: Alzy
23-Nov-18
I wouldn’t eat that.
From: ChasingFAHL
23-Nov-18
Update, I talked with the local agent and he also advised me not to eat. They offered me a doe tag as a replacement but said they don't reissue buck tags. We have unlimited doe harvest with a bow so its no big deal either way. I more so contacted them so someone didn't find my deer on the corner of my property and turn me in for waste.
From: woodguy65
24-Nov-18
Just curious - how did the meat smell?