Great morning stalk with a sour ending( but good result)

[Highbird70]

Gents

Went out, this morning, I was sent for Christmas dinner gathering, great morning to be out, good conditions, I was really hopeful, to come back home, with Christmas dinner sorted.
There was 2 of us, we went in a woodland, that it's split by an A road, so one to the left, the other to the right.
after 3 hours of mix stalking and high seat, I didn't manage to find anything, so decided to go back to the cars and wait for the other hunting companion to come back. As I was changing jacket, I notice in the woodland, some movement, got my rifle and binos and started to investigate, it was a munty doe, quite young, but perfect for my requirements, about 60 yards out and boom, fell to the shot, in the atlas joint, at this point I was really happy, walked back to the car, to tool up, my companion also joined me, informed him about the event and off we went to prepare the carcass, quick inspection of the animal... Seemed fine, so gambrel out and suitable tree to hand fit the grallock.
From here on went all down hill for my planned Christmas dinner, I was mortified by the findings, but happy to put the animal out of is misery end.

Illness= TB

 

[devon deer stalker]

Yep that is bad news, unusual for a munty though?
So what did the ministry vet say?
Cheers
Richard

 

[Highbird70]

Hi Richard,
My hunting companion, he is in charge of the lease, he was going to inform the relative authorities, more than one. In this particular woodland, the badgers, have been injected with TB vaccine.....I don't think it worked or missed some.
As soon as I know some news, I will let you now.

ATB

Yep that is bad news, unusual for a munty though?
So what did the ministry vet say?
Cheers
Richard

 

[shakey jake]

Is that tb never seen any thing like that before

 

[Highbird70]

Hi Shakey,

That's the reason, I wanted to post these photos, so that people, like yourself, that never have the experience, can get a visual, of what it could look like..... yes its definitely TB, a really bad case 2, the lungs are saturated, the strange thing, the munty was behaving normal, no give away of illness, the condition was good too.

Is that tb never seen any thing like that before

 

[artschool]

thanks for taking the time to post about it.

 

[highland stalker]

I think I will stick with the turkey this time.

 

[devon deer stalker]

Hi Richard,
My hunting companion, he is in charge of the lease, he was going to inform the relative authorities, more than one.
As soon as I know some news, I will let you now.
ATB

Thanks, it should be interesting to see if they deal with your munty in the same way they did with my red hind.

Cheers

Richard

 

[shakey jake]

Thanks for the info, does tb crop up all over the country? I thought it was just north and west.

 

[Kjf]

Good post mate, its good to see it in field conditions instead of in a book etc,
It's looks riddled with it, if it is tb its spread further than the lymnphnodes

Were the sacks hard??
Please keep us ( novices)posted,

Very informative post

Atb

Kjf

 

[Highbird70]

Hi Kjf,

I will consider myself a novice, till the day I will die, I learn something new every time I go out stalking, today was a hard lesson, with mix feeling.

Yes it did spread all over, to the nodes too, the cysts where semi hard, I definitely didn't want to cut into one.

ATB
Mark

Good post mate, its good to see it in field conditions instead of in a book etc,
It's looks riddled with it, if it is tb its spread further than the lymnphnodes

Were the sacks hard??
Please keep us ( novices)posted,

Very informative post

Atb

Kjf

 

[Kjf]

Hi Kjf,

I will consider myself a novice, till the day I will die, I learn something new every time I go out stalking, today was a hard lesson, with mix feeling.

Yes it did spread all over, to the nodes too, the cysts where semi hard, I definitely didn't want to cut into one.


Thanks Mark, I've read up about tb and done it as part of dsc1 , but the pics in real life say it all

Cheers

kev

 

[Bugsy]

Interesting, never seen tb in a deer before . cheers

 

[tumbleweed]

Good Post, as i have seen a few photos but not so close up and these are clear enough for all to see. Cheers

 

[Timmy k]

Any chance somebody could put the picture up in another format, my phone won't let me view it. But on the subject of the TV vaccine for badgers I've been told by a farmer who's been riddled with TV in his cattle for years that the vaccine has to be administered to the same badger, 3 years on the trot for it to become affective, so I don't think the Tb problem is going to be solved anytime soon

 

[Feugh]

Great pictures that show the problem really clearly. Thanks.

 

[JockStalk]

I hope never to see that Highbird, but really appreciate you posting the pictures which say it all.
Jim

 

[Apache]

the badgers, have been injected with TB vaccine.....I don't think it worked or missed some.

It doesn't work............

 

[Buchan]

I'd agree TB is high on the list. You say it's definite - has this been confirmed by the lab?

 

[activeviii]

I put a photo up last year of a fallow in the same condition. DEFRA said to take it back the where shot and bury it as it was a wild animal so not to do with them.
Beast looks fine until I unzipped it.