What is this worm?

[RM100]

Fallow pricket, chest shot, end Sept.
Hung about 2 days at 4C.
Then butchered, vac packed and frozen, before Oct 1 when I went on holiday.

Defrosted in fridge for 2 days, wife wanted a casserole today.

Loud scream later: this worm found inside the vac pack, still bloody alive and wiggling!!!!

Anyone encountered this before?

 

[Klenchblaize]

Bait

K

 

[Hook'N'Bullet]

I'd dump the whole lot haha

 

[finnbear270]

Protein, or more common term Bushtucker.

 

[Tim.243]

Fallow pricket, chest shot, end Sept.
Hung about 2 days at 4C.
Then butchered, vac packed and frozen, before Oct 1 when I went on holiday.

Defrosted in fridge for 2 days, wife wanted a casserole today.

Loud scream later: this worm found inside the vac pack, still bloody alive and wiggling!!!!

Anyone encountered this before?View attachment 333866

@deerstalker.308

 

[Jon P]

Lungworm??

 

[deerstalker.308]

Not a scoobie but anything still wiggling after that long subzero isn’t to my liking! I’d be ditching the whole bloody lot.

 

[WH308]

Kill it with fire…

 

[Heym SR20]

I looked this up. A Muscle Worm
According to this 10 weird deer parasites,

10 Weird Parasites that Live Inside Deer

deerassociation.com

I cant find any referrence to them in the UK but there are references to them in Red Deer in NZ.

 

[Buchan]

Lungworm??

Too big.

Curious. I'm lacking my deer book, but wondering if it is an ascarid, or a contaminant. If you've still got it, it would be good to send to the Moredun and ask what it is

 

[RM100]

What/who are the Moredun?

 

[75]

I know this might be a daft question, but are you 100% sure it was inside the vac pac and had indeed done 3 weeks at -18C? I'd be thinking it has come from somewhere else - veg in the fridge etc? I'm no expert on worm physiology but they've a lot of water in them and I can't imaging they do too well for being completely frozen then defrosted.

 

[Turkish]

Looks like a lobworm to me.
Have you got an allotment in the garden?
Do you bring stuff in from there , then put it in the same fridge?

 

[Buchan]

What/who are the Moredun?

www.moredun.org.uk Probably the best place for parasite investigation

 

[JockStalk]

Feed it to the MiL and see what it does?

 

[Tazz]

“ What type of worm is this?” = Hardy

 

[RM100]

Looks like a lobworm to me.
Have you got an allotment in the garden?
Do you bring stuff in from there , then put it in the same fridge?

Nope

 

[RM100]

I know this might be a daft question, but are you 100% sure it was inside the vac pac and had indeed done 3 weeks at -18C? I'd be thinking it has come from somewhere else - veg in the fridge etc? I'm no expert on worm physiology but they've a lot of water in them and I can't imaging they do too well for being completely frozen then defrosted.

Well, my wife opened the packet. She said it was crawling inside the packet (I have the video). She scraped it into a jar……I only saw the final product ie the jar!

I cannot believe any living thing could be there, but here we are.

 

[75]

Well, my wife opened the packet. She said it was crawling inside the packet (I have the video). She scraped it into a jar……I only saw the final product ie the jar!

I cannot believe any living thing could be there, but here we are.

I guess you could put it back in the freezer for a week then defrost and see if it survives??!

 

[finnbear270]

I guess you could put it back in the freezer for a week then defrost and see if it survives??!

Now you know your Grannie said you mustn't re freeze food after defrosting!