PANIC ATTACK!!!
You people have no idea about the crap your putting in your stomach from your local grocery stores but yet you want to worry about wild game.Well,go ahead then,to each his own I guess.

Just because it is wild does not mean it is safe and just because it is bought at a store doesn't make it safe either. It is wise to use common sense and examine an animal before consuming it.

I guess you're right.Every deer I've ever shot and examined seemed to have had at least some degree of LEAD POISONING,and every one died from it,but that never stoped me from eating it.I guess I should stop using lead bullets and switch to copper.NOPE,I don't think so.

Man.I'm going to have to find a veterinarian that likes to hunt for a hunting partner so I can be safe and not eat any sick deer.Because I sure as heck don't know anything about liver disease ar any other ailments a deer might be prone to so as to make a proper diagnoses.Aw the heck with it!Like I said before.CUT DUMP AND DRAG

By the way,I work in a grocery store and I could tell you a few things about the stuff you buy every day,but I won't.It seems you're already paranoid enough and I don't want to ruin your dinner.

i say shoot what you like. if you shot a mature doe back in the start of the deer season its still the same potential bred doe in november or the second rut anyway. also fawns get bred the first year too. something like 25% of them depending on the state is what ive read. a mature doe is gonna be better at raising fawns because its been through a hunting season or 2 though .

pluckit
I think you must be smokeseekers grandpa der. Just here to cause trouble.

lol im not here 4 that

pluckit,

People don't post on forums because of reactions like yours. Though i do agree, they put a lot of crap in the foods we eat everyday.

Chet, how did the deer look otherwise? Were they healthy or appear to be unfit? My dad shot a doe this year and she had a large bulge in her lower leg. She was fat and healthy but when we were skinning her dad hit that sac and a green puss flowed out. We contacted DNR and it was gangreen. It did not spread to the meat and he got his meat. Apparently the deer was shot at and never healed in that leg. We did not explore that leg any further to see if there was anything in that sac. The smell and sight was enough. Anything unusual you should report it to be safe.

Chet I think it is called White Liver Disease and is a result of low B12 levels and low selenium amounts in the foods they eat. I wish I could find that paper I read in college many years ago. Basically there are 3 known materials that show up in testing livers, Cobalt, Copper and Selenium all are found in diets of any animal. Low ranges can result in defficient operations of organs. Here is something I found that shows these metals in a deer diet.

http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/content/full/41/3/569

I do not think the meat is bad, again the liver is where all the pollutants are filtered out of the body. By no means don't eat a liver in that shape. Your DNR can provide more information. Here in MO I wrote them about dad's deer and they promply responded. They asked the same questions about how the deer looked and how the meat looked after skinning and how it smelled.