fallowfellow
Well-Known Member
Dear all,
I wonder see if anyone may be able to confirm or reject my suspicion about a portal node from a roe doe please?
She was shot the other day. Behaviour was perfectly normal. Alert, wary as a downwind deer had scented me and barked. Dropped to a neck shot as facing me.
18kg dressed, skin on. Lovely looking beast. One of nicest I’ve seen. Also shot the juvenile with her. She was still lactating. Lots of fat.
Gralloch all seemed fine. No swollen node in mesentery. Pulmonary, retropharyngeal and submandibular all normal in appearance. Chest cavity clean.
Left liver attached to diaphragm to ease extraction. On further inspection at home, there was one portal node that struck me as out of the ordinary. It was firm, round and size of a small marble, approx 1.5cm diameter. I incised this, a green/brown liquid came out. Rest of liver appeared fine. No obvious fluke.
The deer where I shoot are generally in good health. I think I have see. One before with fluke. I have seen fluke in plenty of fallow I shot in different ground many miles away but never opened a portal node as the diagnosis was obvious from the liver.
DSC manual, deer initiative pdfs, pocket handbook all have no info or pictures of this. Downloaded Wilson’s meat inspection and have spent the evening scanning the disease section. Interesting reading. One possibility, mentioning migrating fluke, it says green caseous nodes can be found in the mesenteric chain. Presumably the liver is upstream and can be similarly affected.
So, common things being common ( and TB being almost umivwrsally described as creamy/yellow). I’m thinking this is fluke
Related, perhaps an early infestation.
Any information appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Also, are there any comprehensive texts on deer disease that I could get for bedtime reading?!?
Pictures below.
I wonder see if anyone may be able to confirm or reject my suspicion about a portal node from a roe doe please?
She was shot the other day. Behaviour was perfectly normal. Alert, wary as a downwind deer had scented me and barked. Dropped to a neck shot as facing me.
18kg dressed, skin on. Lovely looking beast. One of nicest I’ve seen. Also shot the juvenile with her. She was still lactating. Lots of fat.
Gralloch all seemed fine. No swollen node in mesentery. Pulmonary, retropharyngeal and submandibular all normal in appearance. Chest cavity clean.
Left liver attached to diaphragm to ease extraction. On further inspection at home, there was one portal node that struck me as out of the ordinary. It was firm, round and size of a small marble, approx 1.5cm diameter. I incised this, a green/brown liquid came out. Rest of liver appeared fine. No obvious fluke.
The deer where I shoot are generally in good health. I think I have see. One before with fluke. I have seen fluke in plenty of fallow I shot in different ground many miles away but never opened a portal node as the diagnosis was obvious from the liver.
DSC manual, deer initiative pdfs, pocket handbook all have no info or pictures of this. Downloaded Wilson’s meat inspection and have spent the evening scanning the disease section. Interesting reading. One possibility, mentioning migrating fluke, it says green caseous nodes can be found in the mesenteric chain. Presumably the liver is upstream and can be similarly affected.
So, common things being common ( and TB being almost umivwrsally described as creamy/yellow). I’m thinking this is fluke
Related, perhaps an early infestation.
Any information appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Also, are there any comprehensive texts on deer disease that I could get for bedtime reading?!?
Pictures below.
