Weird looking deer

[fasteddie]

This was sent to me as an e-mail . Some pretty gross pics ..........

" This is the deer taken by Don Plant in Prattsburg. The DEC was called, did not want to bother to see it. They also said it was ok to eat the meat."

[wooly]

They also said it was ok to eat the meat."

Ummm....ok. Hold the mushrooms pleeze.

I've shot a few with small growths about the size of a dime(forget the term) but nothing that drastic.

[woodsdweller]

i would say he did taht deer a favor.

[arrow nocker]

Shot one this year with one of those balls on it.I simply cut it off.My kids were grosed out though.It was funny.I read somewhere it is from too much fertilizer on your food plots.I think that is just an assumption though,since there is only one food plot near me.And it is a small one they don't fertilize.I wonder what the cause really is.

[Daveboone]

A few years ago I shot a buck with two of those on it , each about the size of a tennis ball. One was on the L eyelid, hanging off, the other under the L front leg. They both were strictly confined to the outer skin layers. Still, that deer is really yicky!

[Larry]

the growthes are called Fibroma

Wart-like growths found on the skin of white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family are fibromas. They are popularly referred to as skin tumors, or simply warts. Histopathologists identify skin tumors from deer as papillomas, fibromas, or papillofibromas depending upon the predominate type of tissue making up the tumor.

[erussell]

Gross!!! What a Franken Buck!! I would have had to get a new tag. Could you imagine cooking up some tender loins and thinking back to what that deer looked like. I know my wife and daughter wouldn't have touched it.   

[Santamour123]

I have seen this before.  A guy I work with.  His wife shot a wart covered 6 point with a muzzleloader.  The DEC claimed that it was just a skin condition and the meat was fine.  I would question that!!!

[Doc]

But on the positive side ....... look at all the extra meat he got from this deer.

sorry .... ;D

[Larry]

thats all it is is a skin condition but i think the DEC would still give you a new tag for one that looks like that deer

[wooly]

I would hope that would be the least they could do. :-\ I don't think anyone goes out to shoot a deer that looks like that fill the corners of the freezer. Heck, I aint sure my processor would cut that thing up.

It would be kinda fun to pass out a few trays of fresh venison jerkey to the in-laws for the holidays. Give them a week to chew on it before you send a picture of your 2010 kill.

[fasteddie]

But on the positive side ....... look at all the extra meat he got from this deer.

sorry .... ;D

Doc , that is sooooooooo wrong ! Funny though !  .. ..

[wztirem]

Somebody, please pass me the ketchup!

[Larry]

you give it to the food bank

[NYDeer]

That would be a donation deer for me..

 

[fasteddie]

you give it to the food bank

The Food Bank probably wouldn't accept the deposit !  ???

[16. ga hunter]

don't know if it the same with deer but my buddies dog had them and it ended up being a thyroid issue that caused it

[Santamour123]

Well if we see a bunch of people walking around with that on their face next year.  We will know that the DEC was wrong again.  But, they probably wont admit it, if they are!!!

[wztirem]

They probably had a venison  dinner at Dan Plants home!

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I bet the DEC would have the same response as the architech that was telling me the raised bed leach field was dumping drinking grade water into the lake. It was on a project I was working on ..the outflow from the leach bed ran down a very nice looking water ladder into a stream leading to the lake....I bent over...dipped a cup and offered it to him to drink...he turned around and walked away.

I bet those DEC that said it was ok wouldn't sereve it to their kids.

[132 eight pointer]

the growthes are called Fibroma

Wart-like growths found on the skin of white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family are fibromas. They are popularly referred to as skin tumors, or simply warts. Histopathologists identify skin tumors from deer as papillomas, fibromas, or papillofibromas depending upon the predominate type of tissue making up the tumor.

              Would that be from a virus then ?

[WNYBuckHunter]

Nothing wrong with the meat on that deer. As soon as you skin it out, it looks the same. Id eat it.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Nothing wrong with the meat on that deer. As soon as you skin it out, it looks the same. Id eat it.

Well if I shoot one you can have it...lol

[growalot]

The masses that can appear on our Goats...are caused by a virus...we have to lance them every once in a while....using a hazard suit and face mask to drain the puss....They are only skin deep.....done right they rarely reappear...when skinning the deer those masses come off with the hide...I personally would think twice about the meat....once seen...well there's no erasing that image is there?

[Culvercreek hunt club]

well if it is viral...does that mean it has access to the blood stream? If it is blood borne, even though the "mases" are a visible symptom that comes off, wouldn't the virus be throughout the body of the deer. I am not very versed in anything medical and my only frame of reference would be the common cold virus in humans.

I just keep going back in my head when I came across bluegills in a small lake I fished back home. while filleting them there were small white wiggling worms just under the skin inbetween the flakes of meat. I called DEC and was told that "there are no known parasites in New Yorks fish that, if cooked properly, would be harmful to humans"

Worms in my fish----NOPE

Viruses in my deer----see above..lol