Coyotes and wounded deer

[tony]

Coming from a nurse.
Most "expert nurses" are LPNs or CNAs in nursing homes or some drs office.

I work emergency med and prison nursing. I'd be the first to tell you I have no idea if you would grow hair and howl at the moon after midnight.

I do know we'd have to use a silver bullet on you when you turn. I saw that in a move!

 

[Goseth04]

The approach you took with the second deer is the standard, accepted practice among experienced hunters for salvaging meat from a predator-chewed animal. The core principle is: You are not trying to save the contaminated parts; you are aggressively removing them to save the uncontaminated meat.

 

[SwiftShot]

Don't eat the parts the yotes got just cut it out. 2nd this nurse, Jesus. No nurse has any training on zoonotic diseases.

What you might need to worry about. Tapeworm but not a thing from cooked meat. A few types of bacteria infections also solved with cooked meat. Rabies is weird though. The meat handled would need the infected saliva on it and you would need an open cut. Then the infection would need to win the lottery to get you as it has never been documented transmitted that way.

Long story short, the Nurse a very wide level of education on that one, has no real training at all over anyone else on zoonotic disease.

 

[Britt-dog]

Total bs. Don’t listen to nurse Karen about anything to do with animals and 99% of what she says about humans.

Take normal precautions for an animal left overnight regarding spoilage, trim the affected areas and discard tainted meat. Enjoy what is left.

 

[EastHumboldt]

well i have seen videos where people have ate coyote, google eating coyote and tons of youtube videos show up, so there's that

I have seen videos where a coyote is trying to eat a roadrunner, but the road runner is too smart for him. Fair amount of anvils, balloons, dynamite involved. Meep meep!!

On a serious note, I had two eagles take most of a hindquarter off a hanging mule deer one bite at time. Didn’t even occur to me to think about bird disease, just cut around the damage and ate what they didn’t. Of course ever since I’ve had this weird twitch in my right eye….

 

[mad_angler]

A buddy shot a whitetail in Kansas years ago. When he got to it, a coyote had put a decent dent in it.

He called the DNR. They said that there were a lot of cases of mange that year. So the DNR told him to leave the deer and shoot another one.,..

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Unless she works specifically in a field dealing with exactly this, I wouldn't put much stock in a random nurse's opinion on transmissible diseases. Nothing against nurses, but this just sounds way outside a nurse's wheelhouse (and most generic doctors too, tbh). I would want more information and specifics than just... "coyotes have parasites" -> "coyote touches your food" -> "you will get parasites". It's not like you're sharing a plate at the dinner table.

I'd use reasonable judgment to trim away any portions that go chomped on.

Yeah I'm going with this one. I wouldn't even blink at it, trim around the meat some and treat as normal.

 

[BUCKELK]

Alright guys over the last week I’ve had two different buddy’s shoot bucks back in the liver and guts and have had to find these deer the next day. Both of these deer had been got by the coyotes to an extent. One deer was completely dead when found and the coyotes had get into his guts and on his back Quarter. Upon recovering this deer he took it home and had it hanging ready to process. Some friends came over and the woman who’s a nurse, tells him he’s got to throw the meat out because the coyotes carry so many diseases and parasites that he could get very sick. Has anyone ever heard of this before I feel like I have seen guys still salvage as much meat as they can! So That’s what we did with the other deer. I helped him recover that deer the fallowing day also. it was still alive and had to be shot again. Upon recovering this deer we realized the original hit was actually in the back straps and hit some spine so it had almost paralyzed the back end. Over night the coyotes got at his ass a little and tried to start eating on him alive. They had a baseball sized hole on his hind quarter we cut around and processed the deer a few days later. No he is worried about the meat after hearing from this nurse… let me know what you guys think. Thanks for any feed back.

Tell her to keep nursing and stop pretending she's a doctor. There's not a single parasite identified on Earth that spreads via an oral to muscle transmission route. Bacteria is not going to translocate more than 1cm deep into tissue within a 24 hour period. Trim an inch all the way around that coyote wound and eat that deer like any other.