will ticks affect meat?

[jjake40lb]

Will ticks affect the meat of a deer? I plan on taking some does early bow season.

 

[Columbia Scott]

No.

 

[bowriter]

No, but I wouldn't eat one.

 

[Jugfish]

Ticks can only affect the backstraps and the tenderloins. That is why some folks call the tenderloins the "poison glands". A high number of ticks can cause these parts of the deer's muscle tissue to be infected with strombonucleosis bacteria and hermaphroditic protozoans. Send me a private message so we can connect and I'll collect these tissue samples from you for further analysis.

 

[Jugfish]

No, but I wouldn't eat one.

A tick?

 

[MUP]

Almost bought into it till the last sentence! :grin:

 

[Coach]

Ticks can only affect the backstraps and the tenderloins. That is why some folks call the tenderloins the "poison glands". A high number of ticks can cause these parts of the deer's muscle tissue to be infected with strombonucleosis bacteria and hermaphroditic protozoans. Send me a private message so we can connect and I'll collect these tissue samples from you for further analysis.

haha...good

 

[Football Hunter]

NO!

 

[bowriter]

No, but I wouldn't eat one.

A tick?

Of curse a tick. Who in their right mind would eat a tick?

I ate a tock once, though.

 

[bowriter]

Jugfish- Well done, could not have done better myself. I may have to use that some time down at the AL camp when a bunch of Yankess...excuse me, gentlemen of northern persuasion are in camp.

 

[bigtex]

I've never killed a deer early archery that wasn't crawling with ticks and other little critters. They've always eaten just fine, so the answer is NO.

 

[44fanatic]

I found out last weekend that the seed ticks will jump ship after a deer has been dead for a few hours. No ticks when I came out of the woods or after gutting. Once I got home and started skinning, my forearms were covered with them.

 

[Coach]

Jugfish- Well done, could not have done better myself. I may have to use that some time down at the AL camp when a bunch of Yankess...excuse me, gentlemen of northern persuasion are in camp.

Easy BW, easy... :grin: