anybody else eat deer heart?

[hanshi]

Seriously, I don't know what a deer liver fluke is or at least I've never seen one. Exactly what is a liver fluke?

 

[dave n]

War Hawk , see your from BC . I was up there and into Alberta climbing this past Feb . That is some awsome country . BIG . Everything was so big in comparison to my home mts . Took a couple trips out to get a understanding on perception of distances . Planning on going back in maybe 2014 . :v

 

[jamesthomas]

What starts in the gut pile, stays in the gut pile. :grin: I've never been that hungry.

Couldn't have been said any better. :thumbsup:

+2 :barf: I leave it for the wildlife.

 

[dave n]

A fluke is a common leech that is ingested as a larvae when deer drink water . The larvae then proceeds to take up residents within the liver and becomes an adult . It creates a callused pocket as a home . The liver I found them in had to have 10-15 in it . The're about a quarter or larger in size , and about a quarter inch or thicker in thickness . Gross part is if u take one of them and streech it out it will take on the form of the leech as we know it . About 2-21/2 " long . Liver will take on a grayish color . All they do is set there and feed and defeciat . Hope this paints the gross picture that it is . :v

 

[BGRooster1]

I pretty much eat whatever is on the table and when you are married to a woman from the Philippines.Well, let's say I eat about anything. :rotf:

 

[Stumpkiller]

What starts in the gut pile, stays in the gut pile. :grin: I've never been that hungry.

But do you like salami, bologna, braunschweiger, liverwurst, hot dogs or about any "processed" meat? :wink:

Fried scrapple & eggs over easy. Yummmm.

 

[gmww]

Heart, sliced in rings, flopped in flour and browned and then simmered in mushroom gravy!!!
Liver browned the same but finished with onions!

:hatsoff: :hatsoff:

 

[bpollock_sr]

I love fresh deer heart. Sliced thin,sautead in butter with onions and green pepper,a little garlic, salt and pepper. Whats not to like ? Set out at deer camp it disapears in minutes.

 

[Black Hand]

Seriously, I don't know what a deer liver fluke is or at least I've never seen one. Exactly what is a liver fluke?

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26639--,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascioloides_magna

 

[Black Hand]

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26639--,00.html
This parasite is not infective for humans and presents no public health menace in this regard. The main prohibition against human consumption of cooked ”˜flukey' deer liver would be an aesthetic one. Consumption of venison from an infected deer poses no risk to humans.

 

[hanshi]

Yes they are nasty looking things, alright. I'm going to be on the lookout from now on when I gut deer.

 

[ihuntsnook]

When I lived in Vermont and went to hunting camp with friends, we feasted on the heart and liver of the first deer killed. Nothing fancy. Dredge in seasoned flour and lightly fry in a cast iron skilled with butter. Tasted so good, but then everything tastes good in camp after a hunt.

 

[silly goose]

You know I like all those things, but like my eggs cooked hard. The next time I dress a deer I'll pay extra attention and try to find the packages of scrapple and hot dogs, cant believe I been leaving em for the coyotes all these years. :grin:

 

[rabjr]

When I lived in Vermont and went to hunting camp with friends, we feasted on the heart and liver of the first deer killed. Nothing fancy. Dredge in seasoned flour and lightly fry in a cast iron skilled with butter. Tasted so good, but then everything tastes good in camp after a hunt.

Boy did your post bring back memory's. We did the same for many years when the family had a camp in Vermont....

It's funny what we "Traditionalists" turn our nose up to today, hell even I give the organs away to a couple friends who love them and don't hunt themselves....but if we were alive 200 years ago, we'd be eating most of the animal....

 

[Black Hand]

...hot dogs...

These things scare the crap out of me.

 

[gearheart]

AMEN Heart and liver are not nearly as scary as hot dogs. :surrender:

 

[cynthialee]

When I lived in Vermont and went to hunting camp with friends, we feasted on the heart and liver of the first deer killed. Nothing fancy. Dredge in seasoned flour and lightly fry in a cast iron skilled with butter. Tasted so good, but then everything tastes good in camp after a hunt.

Boy did your post bring back memory's. We did the same for many years when the family had a camp in Vermont....

It's funny what we "Traditionalists" turn our nose up to today, hell even I give the organs away to a couple friends who love them and don't hunt themselves....but if we were alive 200 years ago, we'd be eating most of the animal....

if it was 200 years ago we would have been raised eating that stuff and not thought twice about it. But I have a citified and sissified gut that rebels at the thought of eating anything from the abdominal cavity.

 

[Shine]

I got my gramps wicked good recipe for moose head cheese.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Once outside the snail, cercaria encyst on vegetation; these encysted forms are called metacercaria. They represent infective larvae, or young flukes, which are quite resistant to the elements. These are ingested by the definitive host (in this case, deer); the larvae then penetrate the wall of the intestine, and migrate to the liver. The flukes develop to maturity in about three months. If all conditions are favorable, the entire cycle can be completed in five months.

There you have it. Another good reason not to be a vegetarian - liver flukes.

I have a college textbook on Medical Parasitoligy. It is enough to keep you indoors and spraying Lysol.

Walking barefoot outdoors is MUCH riskier than eating deer liver.

Now lets discuss trichinosis so we'll never enjoy pork again. ;-)

 

[Stumpkiller]

Once outside the snail, cercaria encyst on vegetation; these encysted forms are called metacercaria. They represent infective larvae, or young flukes, which are quite resistant to the elements. These are ingested by the definitive host (in this case, deer); the larvae then penetrate the wall of the intestine, and migrate to the liver. The flukes develop to maturity in about three months. If all conditions are favorable, the entire cycle can be completed in five months.

There you have it. Another good reason not to be a vegetarian - liver flukes.

I have a college textbook on Medical Parasitoligy. It is enough to keep you indoors and spraying Lysol.

Walking barefoot outdoors is MUCH riskier than eating deer liver.

Now lets discuss trichinosis so we'll never enjoy pork again. ;-)