Mesenteric

[paulbshooting]

Evening, shot a small fallow doe this morning. She was obviously struggling to walk with a major rear leg issue and couldn't put the foot to the ground and move the leg. External exam was fine, except foot was swollen and one part of hoof missing as per photo. Proceeded with gralloch and internal inspection, all was fine on all nodes including head and jaw except mesenteric chain where two modules were swollen. I cut into one and white creamy pus came out. The problem leg was broken in two places. Made the decision to dispose of carcass. Never seen anything usual in the mesenteric before and thought I had taken a photo but hadn't! Idiot. Would the mesenteric abnormality explain the leg injury and infection? Is that the usual node rather than the others or can any be abnormal? Seen issues with lungs and liver before but never anything in mesenteric chain.
Thanks

 

[Reloader708]

I've had three roe this year with missing rear legs, can't remember which side, all three had enlarged mesenteric nodes with puss.
All other lymph nodes were normal.
Hope that helps.

 

[Buchan]

It would be odd for the mesenterics to be the only ones swollen due to a leg injury. If the whole chain - popliteal, crural, inguinal, going up the leg, then maybe, but even then the circulation is different, so I doubt it. I think there is another infection happening, maybe reduced mobiity so grazing crappier areas?

 

[paulbshooting]

Thanks @Buchan and @Reloader708

Appreciated the comments.