Buck with Large Tumor

[happyannie]

I wanted to post a question here for you guys who have more experience out in the field. I do volunteer work at a county forest preserve. We were watching a buck chasing does around today and we noticed the buck had a huge tumor that hung in loose skin from his stomach close to his haunches. None of us had ever seen anything quite like this. What would cause that and would you walk away from this buck, cull it or keep it? He looked very healthy otherwise and was the correct weight etc. Thanks in advance for any info. Anne

[flyinfeathers]

It is probably an adipoid tumor ie: fatty tumor. Nothing life
threatening. Take him if you want, shouldn't be any problem with
it as you say he looks healthy otherwise.

[pjhunts]

I shot a buck a few years ago that had a large growth on the underside of it's neck, turned out to be a liver fluke, the meat was fine. i don't know how detrimental these are to the animal

[agaucher]

I had a mule doe runing around on some property I have. She had a large tumor like object that bounced on her neck as she ran around. She is still alive but it basically shrank to a small skin flap with time. He should be fine