How Fat are your Fallow?....

[TheCornishman]

So after 2wks of hanging today I butchered my 1st palmated buck.

He was a good animal to take. Big boy but getting on a bit & would've only been going back. He would’ve had definitely done his fair share of breeding. He only had 4x very ground teeth left but just look at the fat on the Caracas

Was so lucky that he presented himself at a time of year when he’d have been at best weight and pre-rut

Has anyone seen fat like this on a WILD Buck before...

 

[Tim.243]

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So after 2wks of hanging today I butchered my 1st palmated buck.

He was a good animal to take. Big boy but getting on a bit & would've only been going back. He would’ve had definitely done his fair share of breeding. He only had 4x very ground teeth left but just look at the fat on the Caracas

Was so lucky that he presented himself at a time of year when he’d have been at best weight and pre-rut

Has anyone seen fat like this on a WILD Buck before...

Had 3 with 20mm of fat like yours...amazing how much the pile on...

Good picture

Tim

 

[John Gryphon]

Has anyone seen fat like this on a WILD Buck before...

Yes

 

[John Gryphon]

A sambar stag,shot by spot lighters and found by me. I cut a hind leg off for dog tucker and fed the remains of the carcase to the wild dogs.

 

[lochty]

Shot a doe yesterday and the fat over the haunches is around the 20mm mark. Kidneys were only just visible through the fat. Should be tasty.

 

[243varmint]

Yep.
Pre rut after feeding up all summer on wheat a rape.
Different foods stuffs gives a different colouring to fat. You can tell what they mainly eat by the fat colour.
Wheat gives a different colour to grass by all accounts.

 

[John Gryphon]

choice meat and imo the best of all the deer species I have tried.

 

[1894]

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So after 2wks of hanging today I butchered my 1st palmated buck.

He was a good animal to take. Big boy but getting on a bit & would've only been going back. He would’ve had definitely done his fair share of breeding. He only had 4x very ground teeth left but just look at the fat on the Caracas

Was so lucky that he presented himself at a time of year when he’d have been at best weight and pre-rut

Has anyone seen fat like this on a WILD Buck before...

Very good providing you don't want to sell it! Over 55kg and the level of fat attracts a reduced £/lb as the saddle etc has to be stripped of excess fat. Thus a 65kg buck gets paid as per a 52kg buck.

Annoying a prime buck is less desirable than a rutted out one but there you go.....

 

[TheCornishman]

Very good providing you don't want to sell it! Over 55kg and the level of fat attracts a reduced £/lb as the saddle etc has to be stripped of excess fat. Thus a 65kg buck gets paid as per a 52kg buck.

Annoying a prime buck is less desirable than a rutted out one but there you go.....

Agreed it makes no sense but I don’t sell the meat from the deer I shoot I am far to fond of it!

Beef is the same mind you. The best eating beef is highly marbled with good buttery yellow fat cover but try to sell it?...people have been groomed into expecting bright red and super lean beef that is way too fresh. Madness....furthermore we import wagu and Galician dairy beef as a specialty which is strewn with fat...mental

 

[Matt Roberts]

There was so much fat on the saddle of a fallow I had in the larder recently there was enough left over to truss the haunches with after I’d noisette rolled the loins!

 

[Rasputin]

Loads on this fat lad he was my first fallow terrible head but was so heavy I struggled to lift him up . I was always taught to take the fat off for cooking does everyone else do the same?

 

[Henns]

It looks good, but really not keen on the taste of fallow fat.

 

[Matt Roberts]

These two November does are packing plenty!

 

[Freeforester]

A good doe for Christmas, plenty of suet for the blue-tit. (Not a reference to BoJo!)

 

[John Gryphon]

A fat backer buck i knocked over in Tassy. I love the fatty chops cooked on a wire grill over real hardwood coals. The chop tails are gannetted too.

 

[Matt Roberts]

A fat backer buck i knocked over in Tassy. I love the fatty chops cooked on a wire grill over real hardwood coals. The chop tails are gannetted too.

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I loved Tasmania. Bet that one made you puff!

 

[Freeforester]

Rasputin, have you a tracking dog by any chance??

 

[John Gryphon]

Bet that one made you puff!

And huff too.

 

[Rasputin]

Rasputin, have you a tracking dog by any chance??

erm not really I have my border and my working cocker who Iv used before. Why?

 

[Tim.243]

Fat Red Hind....


Tim.243