Safe to eat?

[Bluebird]

I butchered a cull doe recently that was not having good success with litters. When I cleaned out the carcass I had a look at the uterus and found that one horn was three to four times the size of the other, and full of some kind of hard, almost bony substance. My sister looked at it and suggested it could be a tumor of some kind. Do you think it's safe to eat this one? Otherwise it seemed fine. I would have taken a picture, but unfortunately didn't have a camera available.

 

[ottersatin]

I believe it to be a calcified/ Mummified kit.
Ottersatin. ldtimer:

 

[MamaSheepdog]

It sounds like a mummified kit. I *believe* that happens with rabbits (confirmation, anyone?)- I know it can happen with goats.

Lol, ask and ye shall receive. OS beat me to it!

 

[Bluebird]

OK, I guess I need to learn my anatomy a little better--I didn't think the kits grew in that part of the uterus. It did feel like a kit though. I don't know why I didn't open it up to find out. I guess it's plenty safe to eat though, if that's all.

 

[MaggieJ]

Should be perfectly safe. Likely a mummified kit but even if it was a tumour, it would not be transmittable. And, after all, you are cooking it. There are very few things that survive the cooking process.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I guess I need to learn my anatomy a little better--I didn't think the kits grew in that part of the uterus.

In people, that would be called an ectopic or "tubal pregnancy" and can be deadly if not terminated because it will rupture the fallopian tube. We gestate babies in the uterus itself, but animals that give birth to multiple young gestate them in the horns. Humans, horses, and cows have very short "horns" in comparison to animals that give birth to "litters".

 

[Bluebird]

Thanks for the info, MamaSheepdog!

 

[MamaSheepdog]

You are very welcome.

I betcha if you learned that in school, with no practical application, you wouldn't remember it... but you will now, because you had a need to know.

:thankyou:

for another example of why I believe "Unschooling" is the right way to approach education!

 

[Tegan]

for another example of why I believe "Unschooling" is the right way to approach education!

Semi-hijack! I so agree. We're doing both with our daughter (traditional schooling and unschooling) Basically when she is interested in a topic we hit it hard....otherwise we don't push it much...and she will go to "traditional" school as well. At 4 years old she's one scarey smart kid (and I'm not just saying that because I'm biased!)

Done hijacking now!

 

[Hazel]

Unschooling?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Re: Unschooling... I will start a separate thread on this subject next week after my Sistah has gone home... unless someone else starts one before.

Perhaps OAF will have some observations to add to the discussion after meeting my "pups".