Ever seen this before......

[mscampbell75]

....and is it something I should be worried about?

Cleaning a deer this morning, we ran into something unsual.  While caping down the back of the lower ham section.  We cut into what appeared to be a cyst of some type filled with a green puss.  It was about the size tangerine.  The puss was encased inside of what looked to be fatty tissue.  The meat appeared to be ok.  No foul smell from the meat.

You can see in the pic as the puss pocket is cut in half.



This bottome pic is when we 1st cut into it.



We did cut the meat out directly around the cyst and discarded it anyway!!

[creekwood]

Seen it once, it was on a buck and appeared to be the result of a goring from another buck?

[Red4arm]

Never seen that, obviously an infected area, cook to a decent  temp and I think you would be ok

[speedwalker]

Well I grew up working in the family butcher shop.  Don't eat anything that touched that,  And cut all around it.  Deer processing saying, "when in doubt, throw it out."

[highpoint forge]

Shot a hog last week and man did it have abscesses all over it! One rear hoof was completely swollen, splaying apart the hoof about two inches. The hog itself looked quite run down and skinny compared to the other one we shot.

[mscampbell75]

Originally posted by creekwood:


Seen it once, it was on a buck and appeared to be the result of a goring from another buck? [/QB]

This seem plausable.  This defintly was a fighter buck.  He had scares all on his neck & face.  Even had one approx. 8"long that was scabed up on the underside of his rump.  Something has wooped him good.  I seen him crossing the field 70yrs away, hit the calls, with no luck.  Tickled the horns VERY lightly and he bolted outta there.

Speedwalker,  We cut the entire back side of ham out and discarded it.

Thanks guys for the replies.!!  Good hunting to all of you.

[stik&string]

I think you did the right thing discarding the meat from the area. I saw that on a deer I shot a few years ago but it wasn't that severe.

[David Yukon]

We see it often on moose after the rut fights! cut it away and the meat should be no problem to eat!

[SimpleMan]

It is from someone getting the better of him.  I killed a nice 16pt (8 pt frame) last year that I thougth had been shot when I saw it.  It was favoring the left from leg and it's hair was all matted on the left side around the rib area.  It had been gored in the side just above its left shoulder blade and also about an inch under his rectum into the right ham.  Both places had hard fatty tissue formed around the areas.  The wound above the shoulder blade was infected, but the other wasn't.  The dogs got a large portion of that buck.  :(    I took no chances.

[Thumper Dunker]

Thats where yogurt comes from. Had to say that.

[buckracks7]

Saw it once in the hams, but there were puncture holes too. My guess was coyotes attacked it.

[Don Stokes]

I've seen that on a deer that had been sprayed with buckshot from too far away. An abscess everywhere the shot hit.

[Molson]

I shot one two years ago that had a large pussball encased in hard tissue.  Inside I found a 125gr Thunderhead.  I cut the area out and the rest of the deer was fine.

[bowmaster12]

see it all the time at the taxidermy shop mostly from fighting it seems but also due to other injuries cut around a large area all other meat is good

[reddogge]

Vanilla pudding?

[LeverActionman]

My dad shot a buck three years ago that had a grain of corn in its ham with puss and fatty tissue around it.The only thing we could figure was that he had been fighting in a corn field and the corn got pushed in by the other buck.Sounds crazy huh.

[Bonebuster]

An infection like that would have one of us with a fever of 104, and extreme pain.

Amazing animals!

[JO_EZ]

I shot a doe with my muzzle loader one time with a walnut sized syst like that. It was by the top of the shoulders, so I thought it was an archery wound.

It made me think twice, but I cut it all out and the rest of the meat was fine.

[Bowhunter4life]

Yep I see these all the time in the clinic, only they are on live critters... Cats are notorious for abcesses... usually from bites and scratches from other cats...

[fireman_3311]

Everything fits on a Ritz!!!!