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    Posted: November/19/2009 at 22:26

Have butchered 20-30 deer each of the last 6-7 years and this is a first.

An 8 pt buck that looked perfectly healthy alive, and had nothing else appear odd had brown bones.  Not white or craem like normal, but brown.
 
Any ideas?  Meet looked and smelled normal.
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dogger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/20/2009 at 06:03
Never heard of that.  Might want to ask a butcher if he has encountered this.  No you know any veterinarians you could ask for an opinion?
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  Got me.  What did the liver look like if you know?
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I would ask fish and game and see if their biologist has ever seen this.  I would be a little hesitant about the meat....but I am no expert.  It could be fine.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RONK Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November/20/2009 at 07:14
 An old farmer's wife I know always bragged about how her home-grown chickens had white bones instead of those brown bones all the store-bought fryers seem to have.
She seemed to assume that it was common knowledge that white bones indicated a healthier, more wholesome and better-tasting bird.
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 I'm guessing the bone color is related to the intake of various minerals. Was this deer taken over or near a mineral lick or someting like that?
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Originally posted by BillyWayne BillyWayne wrote:

I would ask fish and game and see if their biologist has ever seen this.  I would be a little hesitant about the meat....but I am no expert.  It could be fine.


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Take a cut it up as normal. Take and cook your mother in-law a nice roast and drop it off at her house for her to enjoy alone. if she is still a pain in the arsie in 2 weeks the meat is good. if she dies throw the rest out.

 

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Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

if she dies throw the rest out.



Or you could probably sell the rest to some other sons-in-law. I'm not sayin' I'm one of 'em. But I'm not sayin' I ain't either.
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