I personally wouldn't risk it.

 

x2. I have seen guys take the other parts of a deer and be fine, but I couldn't stomach it. Infection is a bodywide problem.

t

 

The infection has infected the rest of the body I would not even think about eating it.

 

My bro in law the ver says....cut the leg off and enjoy the rest!

 

He is right. Infection is a local issue. Cut off and discard the offending area (in this case, the hind leg) and enjoy the rest. It will be fine.

Ray

 

The other meat is fine...Cut a peice and take it away from the other..you can smell if its bad..

 

I wouldn't do it. Gangrene gives me the willys!

Gang Green is a nickname for the New York Jets.:wink:

 

By comparison, they are equal, terrible and smelly(i assume anyway...)


oh, and i wouldnt eat it. its just not worth it.

 

It would probably be ok, but I wouldn't risk it.
Plenty of deer out there, if you need the meat kill another one.

 

Eat the leg throw the rest out.




Hmm better reverse the order on that.

 

I would not eat any of this particular tainted venison either. Why risk turning off your family or friends to what should be an enjoyable feast of excellent healthy lean red meat? If they get a mental bloc, they will never eat deer meat in the future. If you cook and eat alone, go for it! Otherwise, out back it goes for the coyotes.

 

If you took it to a processer they wouldn't touch it. You be the judge. I would put it out for the yotes.

 

Couldn't say it any better than Stanley did.

 

I personally wouldn't risk it, not worth getting sick over & there are plenty more deer out there.

 

How big of an area?

I hope that wasn't his only tag.
I've never thought about it 'cuz we've never ran across it....what are the Departments requirements in your state on bad meat? Do you still have to take the rest home or do they consider it waste if you leave the deer?

The whole leg had a terrible odor?
I think...as some have said...the infection(you see)is technically a local issue...but trust if you had a leg that was rotting it would effect the rest of your system!
The effects of the infection are certainly systemic and I'm sure the condition of the rest of the meat will reflect the stress his system was under.....taste.ukey:
I wouldn't eat it.

 

Once again, it's fine. Amazing how many people will waste an entire deer over one small area.

 

Im sure there are plenty of things you dont eat that other people would find weird. Do you gut your deer, or eat it all like some do in other cultures?

 

Bad smell is natures way of saying off limits.

 

I wouldn't chance it!! I would throw up if someone told me that they had just fed me some deer meat from a deer that had an infected leg like that! I am WAY too weird about food for that nonsense!!

Throw it out for the yotes, then shoot the yotes!!

 

worked it packing house common abcess on animals cut off rest ok

 

no problem with the deer cut off the bad part are eat the rest have done this personally on 2 deer with no problems. I personal say make some summer sausage with it do this with all my older meat, tough meat and meat that it scraps. No need to waste the rest of the deer if its good meat.

 

It probably wouldn't hurt you but....

I'd be thinking of that green pus everytime I took a bite---no thanks!

 

I killed a nice bull moose back in 06 and he had a huge chunk of meat missing from his left hindquarter which had scabbed over and nasty looking. I cut the affected piece of meat off and ate the rest and it was delicious. If the meat smells fine I would not hesitate to eat it.

 

I wouldnt of even stuck my knife in it.

 

The infection could have moved to the blood already also. It would not be worth taking a chance on. My brother in law shot one in the leg a few years ago and we found it and shot it again a few weeks later and it was exactly as you desribe this one to be and all of the meat had a bad smell to it.

 

I am usually very open minded about such issues.......but I don`t care if the surgeon general comes on here and says it is OK to eat the unaffected meat.....I ain`t doing it.ukey:

 

Im bookmarking this post, we finally agree on something.

 

I shot a buck 2 years ago late season that was handicapped in the back end. My father-in law has been bowhunting since they started here in Kansas. He knew something wasn't right w/ the buck just looking at it. He told me not to eat it. I argued w/ him. I hung it in his barn and when I pulled the skin down past one of the hips, all this nasty puss came oozing out. It was the worst smellin stuff ever. The buck had a hole the size of a tennis ball above his hip and it ran along his spine, one huge empty cavity. Needless to say I gave the yotes a good mealukey:

 

hutning coyotes is way more fun that puking infected deer meat. sacrafice that one for the sake of predator control and kill another

 

we all want to respect the animal and not waste meat....but this sort of infection seems to be pretty bad...odds are the rest of the meat is prolly good....but its not really worth eating it and getting sick over it...since there are so many that seem to disagree on the matter and no one really KNOWS if its okay or not...i wouldnt be willing to take the risk.

 

I don't think I would eat it!