Deer skin problem. Need thoughts. (pics)

[9452772]

I shot this deer in Bandera County Saturday evening and it has some type of skin problem. I could find no ticks or mites that I could see. The bad spots had little pus filled sacks and little bit of blood. While we where skinning the deer the meat was not affected. The deer was healthy and the meat smelled and looked good. Any thoughts on what it could be?

Thanks,
Monty

[Mudslinger]

Mange?

[HoustonHunter94]

Hmm, I can't say I have ever seen that. Ticks? Fleas? Any critters on it that you could find or see? How did the meat look?

[gandergitter]

Looks like mange to me.....

[Smart]

I am not you, but that meat would be labeled "Buzzard Food" as I don't want whatever virus caused that in anything I eat.

[Osceola]

My dog gets something like that on him from flea bites.He may be allergic to tick bites.

[Br'er_Henry]

Do you notice any tumors underneath the skin?

[d arrow]

Last time I ate deer with same issues? my whole body started "TWITCHING" and doing brake dance without me controling it. AAAhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Just kidding, just kidding. If you are concern about eating it? Do NOT eat the Meat, leave it for the Dead Eating Big Black Bird (Buzzards) to consume it back to nature.

[passing thru]

Hope u wore gloves. Yote bait.

[txcwbyon44s]

send those pics to the txpw they could tell you.

[Graysonelement]

I never seen anything like that!

[backstrapper77]

kind of gross if you ask me

[Brushpopper]

Let the Wildlife Biologist look at that.

[BTLowry]

I don't know what is wrong with that deer but it would be feeding the critters.





Hopefully TPWD can help you out with a diagnosis

[texasaggiebowhunter]

it looks like some type of mange...but it could be a number of different skin allergies and or parasites... if you have any doubt at all though, dont eat the meat, just the mental part of the "unknown" can and will cause you to have "symptoms". when in doubt, just dont chance it. there are quite a few things that can cause people to reject an animal carcass, most of which do absolutely nothing to meat quality, such as bot flies and giant liver flukes, it all comes down to you though to make the choice.