Sick Deer Mean No Meat

So this next clip is just a very unfortunate thing that happened, I’m a little all over the place with my talking points and a little repetitive bc I was very upset. This was at least 50 lbs of meat for me and my family having to be thrown out. So 2 out of 8 deer that I killed this past season had some sort of injury. Believe it or not that makes a difference in the meat. A small 2X2 bruise could easily render over a square foot of meat useless. When an animal has any sort of injury it affects the entire surrounding area. The affected areas could just be on the surface or could run internally. There’s no way to tell how extensive the damage is until you cut the animal open.

For example on this deer the outside looked great no discoloration, no discharge, no bad odor, just good healthy meat. Yet as soon as I cut into the flesh it spewed out vile smelling liquid everywhere, the organs were filled with blood clots and infection, and even the spine was filled with a strange liquid and when cut into there was escaping gases like from a coke bottle.

And when cutting into the back leg there was a pocket of dark almost black blood inside of the muscle which is not supposed to be there.

I called DNR, Department of Natural Resources, and was eventually given the number to the head of state wildlife biology. His name is Scott, Scott the State Biologist. I explained to him what was wrong with the deer, how long I had it before it was butchered, and the physical quality of the meat. All in all he said that he would not even attempt to eat the deer and to just toss it in a wooded area where scavengers would find it. Scott said that what happened was that the deer was fighting an internal infection and it had spread throughout its entire body entering the bloodstream and even filling the spine with fluid. I was also informed that the deer was in pain and had 3-4 months left to live, Scott said that it would have been in agony towards the laft few weeks of its life.

I always call DNR, Game Warden, Park officials, or any sort of authority figure to the nature community when I find things wrong with wild game. I have multiple reasons for this but I have3 main reason why:

1.Make sure it’s not a disease that can spread to humans
2.Make sure it’s not something detrimental to the animal’s population
3.Make sure it can’t spread to other animals
4.To help keep track of the health, status, and overall well being of wild game

After making sure that it was safe to simply discard in a patch of woods I did so. My yard continued to reek of sickness and infection for a week after the carcass was gone.