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Landonskalet18

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My brother recently killed a mature buck. We let him lay overnight since he wasn’t sure how good the hit was. When we went to skin him out we noticed a rotten smell and a green infectious color through the deer all the way from the skull to the hind quarters.
The deer seemed fine on the outside he was grunting and chasing does and still managed to go 100 yards on a high double lung hit. We have since gotten rid of the carcass obviously we didn’t keep any meat.
Has anyone ever seen this or know what disease this could be? Google says maybe brain abcess that spread and from my little research I think I can rule out CWD.
Thanks for replies!
 
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Landonskalet18 said:
My brother recently killed a mature buck. We let him lay overnight since he wasn’t sure how good the hit was. When we went to skin him out we noticed a rotten smell and a green infectious color through the deer all the way from the skull to the hind quarters.
The deer seemed fine on the outside he was grunting and chasing does and still managed to go 100 yards on a high double lung hit. We have since gotten rid of the carcass obviously we didn’t keep any meat.
Has anyone ever seen this or know what disease this could be? Google says maybe brain abcess that spread and from my little research I think I can rule out CWD.
Thanks for replies!
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So the green color and smell was isolated to the top of the deer or the entire animal?
 
IowaBowHunter1983 said:
I've seen that green often. infection. usually from being shot or another buck punching a hole in him. On another note, I would never have a deer tested for CWD. Only bad things can come of it.
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100%. I believe in 2023 the DNR had a couple employees at a Mid Iowa Archers shoot with a little table set up about CWD, the zones in IA, and them wanting to collect samples from a few areas. I chatted with them and gave my view points on it and how as hunter why would I want to have a deer from where I hunt tested. I said if positive etc all that is going to come from it is then an ton of tags to shoot more deer in the area. There is no cure for it, shooting all the deer isnt going to stop it, and doing that is going to make hunting worse. We had a good civil conversation and I think we both appreciated that and she appreciated my feedback.
 
Not to take this thread in another direction but I think we as hunters in IA responded correctly with the CWD testing push - until they give a better solution once a positive case is found I'm not participating either. Other states where the scare of CWD was newer and hunters submitted samples to help ID areas that had it regret doing so I'm sure.
 
I 100% agree that no good solution has been proposed yet to help stop CWD. On the other other hand, I think I would still like to know if CWD is present on my farms, how it's spreading, where its most prevalent, etc. All in the hopes to better understand causality and where our research dollars and efforts should be attributed. I know a lot of people don't have much worry for CWD but if the testing #'s show a sudden spike in positive tests that may change perception or speed up the need for more studies, funding, etc. I'm afraid by 'avoiding' testing the problem will grow too large to be course corrected before it gets completely out-of-hand. Would also agree, however, the need to lobby to DNR and others that shooting all the deer isn't the answer should we see increased CWD cases.
 
Landonskalet18 said:
The entire animal from face to hind quarters
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I would say the deer spoiled overnight. If the shot was anywhere through the guts that would even make me more sure. We had some warm days and nights through most of the season. If it was a 45-50 degree night like we had I would lean toward spoiled meat and not infection. JMO.
 
During shotgun season one year, my friend jumped a buck and hammered it, DRT. Started skinning and he was green head to toe, trashed him. My opinion is he was septic from a previous wound.

Another year, I got trail camera pics of a buck with a festering wound on a hind leg all summer long. Shot him first shotgun season and the meat wasn’t salvageable. Called the CO who said if I wanted the rack, tag it. I let him pick it up to dispose of and kept hunting.


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Yup- I’ve shot a deer many years ago that had an arrow stuck in his eye socket. I found out later he was shot second week in October and I shot him first gun season. The whole deer was rank from infection. It happens
 
I wish every hunter in Iowa would stop throwing CWD around. Fastest way to ruin your herd is make claims about seeing it or having one affected by it. Just ask those fellas up in Northeast Iowa how that’s worked for their herd in areas where there have been positive tests………
 
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