Pronghorn liver lesion

[MThuntr]

Anyone want to take a guess at what this is on an antelope liver? You think it's safe to eat the meat?

 

[mtmuley]

Anyone want to take a guess at what this is on an antelope liver? You think it's safe to eat the meat?

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@Hunting Wife maybe. mtmuley

 

[Hunting Wife]

Did you happen to cut into one, by chance? Curious what the inside looked like.

That white covering looks very fibrous to me- I assume fairly hard and tough feeling. That usually indicates something chronic- it’s been there a while. Also looks like a fairly minimal involvement to that one lobe? Seems like it’s something the body kind of contained on its own. Could be parasitic- liver flukes aren’t that uncommon. Could be bacterial. Hard to say from that one photo. The rest of the tissues I can see in that photo look beautiful.

I wouldn’t eat the liver. I wouldn’t have any qualms about the meat.

 

[CT_SD]

Abscesses or flukes if I had to guess. I wouldn’t hesitate to eat the meat.

 

[MThuntr]

Did you happen to cut into one, by chance? Curious what the inside looked like.

That white covering looks very fibrous to me- I assume fairly hard and tough feeling. That usually indicates something chronic- it’s been there a while. Also looks like a fairly minimal involvement to that one lobe? Seems like it’s something the body kind of contained on its own. Could be parasitic- liver flukes aren’t that uncommon. Could be bacterial. Hard to say from that one photo. The rest of the tissues I can see in that photo look beautiful.

I wouldn’t eat the liver. I wouldn’t have any qualms about the meat.

I didn't cut it open unfortunately and only grabbed 1 picture.

The rest of the liver looked very normal. Same with the lungs and heart.