eric
10-13-2008, 10:00 AM
Hello all, 3 days ago i got a 6x5 elk ( sorry no camera with me ) While i was skinning it out i found a soft mushy spot on it's left hip under the hide about the size of a soft ball, also between the skin and flesh there was a light brown coloured film,almost a slime like stuff.This bull had been doing lots of fighting as it was bruised up a lot along it's front shoulders and around this one hip, I had checked to see if the hide had been punctured, but all was okay with the hide.The next day I checked out this soft spot and found that it had grown a bit, I took a knife and cut into the spot and a pink coloured liquid ran out of the hole.I have cut all this soft meat away from the rest of the good meat, but i'm wondering if the rest of the hind quarter is going to be okay to eat.
Has anybody else ever found anything like this. I am going to be talking to the biologist up here as well as going to talk to the local butchers to see if they have ever come across something like it.
I had also given this bad section of meat the sniff test and there was no bad smell coming from it
What do you think, should I take a chance and process the meat or feed it to the coyotes, it would be a real shame to have to let whats left of the hind quarter go to waste,but i don't want to get sick either
What should a person do
Happy Thanksgiving
Eric
Has anybody else ever found anything like this. I am going to be talking to the biologist up here as well as going to talk to the local butchers to see if they have ever come across something like it.
I had also given this bad section of meat the sniff test and there was no bad smell coming from it
What do you think, should I take a chance and process the meat or feed it to the coyotes, it would be a real shame to have to let whats left of the hind quarter go to waste,but i don't want to get sick either
What should a person do
Happy Thanksgiving
Eric