bjess the meat is very lean hardly no fat at all under the hide you might find small little jelly sack type objects on the hide its self when you skin it not to worry they are from the flies and never hurt out meat as for size of the bous about 225 to 300 lbs on average we cut all our own meat and get quite a bit of meat its like 2 to 3 medium whitetail depending on what you want done and i agree by far the best meat you will ever eat in my opinion.