Shot two hinds and a fawn for tucker in two different areas of the pureora yesterday. All animals were in poor condition and have intra muscular worms. Organs were clear but not too keen on worms. Whats the go?
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Shot two hinds and a fawn for tucker in two different areas of the pureora yesterday. All animals were in poor condition and have intra muscular worms. Organs were clear but not too keen on worms. Whats the go?
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Twitch nerve fibres?
Bit hard to tell from the pics. If they have goop inside them when you squeeze them they are most likely worms. If they are solid then maybe muscle fibres.
Wild animals, very skinny considering they were gorging themselves on grass. Definitely worms, ive broken down 20odd animals and have never seen anything like it
Cut the meat into quarters and could pull them in both directions, not connected to anything.
freeze well and cook well.... unusual,have never struck that myself.
I would take a hard pass on that. Each to their own with regards to that but I would chuck the lot. I don't take risks when it comes to food.
https://www.realtree.com/deer-huntin...nison-infested
Muscle Worms
You’ll notice muscle worms when butchering venison. They look like 1- to 3-inch pieces of white string. Unfortunately, they often inhabit the backstrap and hams of the deer, making them particularly annoying.
Like sarcocystis, the worms are harmless to both deer and humans. While technically they could be eaten after cooking, I suggest hunters who discover muscle worms to discard the infected portion of venison and closely examine the remaining meat before consuming. No one wants to eat a parasitic worm.
Quick Google came up with above. From overseas so may not be relevant.
I would freeze and do a bit more research.
https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....ya-meat-23011/
Old forum post
Nerve endings attached to the hide...? Used to see them in beef at work all the time. All the time. Sarco cysts in Bobbas post above look like rice bubbles in the muscles.
Its gone into a hole unfortunately, they were in poor nick and worse than barracuta so we arent eating it.
Good choice. Not worth the risk.
Elaphostrongylus cervi
Tissue worms (maybe).
I thort worms where only inside the gut area
Almost all mammals have parasitic worms in them (probably didn’t want to hear that lol). This includes most human beings and the animals we hunt and farm. Pigs and fowl tend to have a higher parasite load. Even if you don’t see worms when you are butchering an animal they are there. It would be very rare indeed to have a worm load of absolute zero in a wild mammal. Don’t worry about it, this is the way it is and the way it has always been.
If not sure,toss it out.Go hunt some more in a different area.Gota look after yr familly and health.
Good photos, matto.
They look quite regularly spaced as if one goes to each rib which makes me think they are nerves.
Maybe its just cos they were so skinny from some other reason that you could see them clearly this time.
Perhaps been chased by pig dogs to a less favourable habitat like south of the bridge.
Intersting suggestion, @Tahr . Sounds like those are established in NZ. I wonder what is the snail host here ? Perhaps they are more numerous in Pureora due to long term rat / possum control. But I still dont think these particular ones were worms.
Ive pulled plenty of animals out of there and this is definitely something uncommon. They were through the muscles and not connected to anything, could pull them out from one end and if i sliced through i could floss them in the holes :sick:
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I have skinned a lot of deer and never seen that ever.
Send a photo into your vet and see what he reckons.
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Attachment 218754Attachment 218755 pulled out a backstrap from the same area 15/4/22 from a hind. Whipped the silver skin off and same thing :pissed off:
well its been frozen for long enough,and will be cooked for long enough..... turn down the lights and hoe in.
These are not worms sorry to say it but you chucked out perfectly good venison
Shot a pig once. Poor thing was covered in dog bites and quite a few of the bites were infected with maggots under the skin. Whole animal stank. After the adrenaline from the hunt had worn off and well in to the butchery, I asked myself if I was really going to feed it to my 5 year old son? Discarded the whole lot.
matto1234 - I'd say worms too. Not an expert, but am familiar with most things biological.
yes skinned a lot of deer but never seen anything like that be neat to see what a vet has to say for the benefit of all of us reading this post in case we run into same seems some think worms others nerves ??? could we get a positive diagnosis be very keen to see one looks damn ugly
@ethos?
What it actually is I’m not sure but
As stated at the start of this thread could be nerve fibres/ connective tissues
You will find this in all deer just not noticeable in animals in good condition carrying good fat layer
In the deer I shot in Australia that were all in good condition but with next to no fat this was visible in all of them
Also the way you skin the animal has an effect as pulling the skin off stretches the fibres out more giving a worm like appearance
Have just finished butchering a fallow buck the fibres on top of shoulder we’re not visible as of fat layer but some advisable around bottom shoulder and also in backsteak
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I can not recall of any deer I have shot that did not have this visible to some point
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This pic is just a random one off the net shows the same