Tapeworm larvae

 

:yeahthat: seen a post on face book awhile back . The tenderloins had white dots all through them and it was determined to be tapeworm larvae . It said in that post that they could be removed and the meat should be cooked thoroughly . But that still doesn't sound like good eating to me.

 

Turn it into pepperoni and hand it out at the freeway ramps.

Win - win.


:wink:

 

Turn it into pepperoni and hand it out at the freeway ramps.

Win - win.


:wink:

I can't stop laughing about this and I know it is just wrong LOL.

 

Double check with a biologist, but it appears that it is more than likely tape worms.

I just wonder how many deer I have eaten that had them and I didn't know it :doh:

Thanks to Directdrive, I now know what to do with it. LMAO

 

Wow that's gross

 

I saw something about this on another site. Looks like tapeworm. A lot of deer in the Heppner area have them.

 

My guess is sarcocystosis...won't hurt you but it's gross.

 

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.muscle1

 

So is it a safe bet those are courtesy of our wolf guests?

 

No, they've always been here. They are everywhere, literally. The lifecycle begins as an egg that is ingested by a deer while browsing. That egg is from feces contaminated forage or water. The egg travels into the gut and hatches into a larva. The larva then burrows through the intestinal wall and into the muscle or other organs of it's host. The larva then encysts itself and lies in wait.

So to complete that lifecycle, another animal needs to eat the flesh of the infected host and consume the cyst. Then the cyst will hatch and the larva will then grow to an adult tapeworm in say a coyote, bear, wolf or cougar. Then the adult tapeworm will spew millions of eggs that are excreted from the live host.

Then the lifecycle starts over as those eggs are deposited in water and on forage for other creatures to consume.

 

They are tapeworm cysts. They cannot infect people. Our bodies are not a compatible environment for them to live in. I've found them in nearly every animal I've ever butchered.

 

Ewwwwww
Back to the Weebie Jeeebie Thread.assout:
I'll be itching all day.:hoboy:

Thanks

 

Learn something new everyday. I used to like my deer and elk steaks medium rare now hmm even if they can't hurt me...

 

Deer actually can develop a full grown tape worm, but they expel them as yearlings. Coyotes are an intermediate host. I once found a full length tape worm in a yearling buck I had arrowed and cut the small intestine, now that was freaky, gutting the buck out and the long white thing starts moving!:crazy:

 

Yuk!!!

I shot a coyote one time and the bullet opened it up pretty good. Full of tape worms crawling around in the gut pile.

 

Thanks for the info guys. And Direct, if only making pep wasn't so expensive...... hahaha

 

Thats interesting. Looks like the same cysts that show up in salmon.

 

That's what I was thinking. I've seen a lot of coastal fall fish with similar flavor nodules....

 

Mill some white peppercorns on it.
The guests will never notice.

 

"How would you like that backstrap cooked Dad?"

"Medium rare. Second thought, I'll take it WELL DONE!!"