What is this and is the meat good

Shot this doe last night. There's lumps on both sides of the jaw The lumps are soft to the touch. Deer looked very healthy I'm On my way To a deer processer let him see it. If it was up to me it be stone crab bait but my father thinks other wise [img:center]http://[/img] [img:center]http://[/img]

Looks like an infection maybe or possibly a tumor.... Maybe she needed a root canal...

Heck of a wad of skoal that nanny was packin!

Seriously though it's probably a tumor or swelling from an injury that hasn't fully healed. I would think that has no bearing on the meat being bad. So if it were me I wouldn't worry unless there's something really crazy going on inside the deer that you haven't seen yet.

looks like a fusobacteria infection.

That's a squeer...it's a cross between a deer and a squirrel. She's just stashing corn for the winter.

I gutted her last night meat looked great nuthing out of the normal. There was whole corn in her stomach not pieces. Just to add shot on green field not under corn

She went out with Ray Rice the night before you shot her.

I gutted her last night meat looked great nuthing out of the normal. There was whole corn in her stomach not pieces. Just to add shot on green field not under corn

Arterial worms. Elaeophora schneideri

Google it for pictures.

Did you cut the lumps open? They should have been impactions of food material if you did.

It was full of food it was eating

That's arterial worms.

[quote=CeeHawk37]Heck of a wad of skoal that nanny was packin!

lmfao

Hybrid chipmunk?

First thing I thought of was Levi or red man. Lol
Can you say red man anymore? Can you say "if its brown its down"? Ha ha

I thought it was

Thats 10 pounds of bonus burger!!!

Lump jaw. Caused by a bacteria occurring in corn. Somebody's got some bad corn.

This wasn't bacterial. It was impacted feed. Look up arterial worms in deer.

Worms?
Oh, now that's gross!

So is the meat good or not

I probably wouldn't eat the head...

Meat will be fine.

Wow! All these years of hunting and I've never heard of this one. Lot of info and pics on the web about it

Some folks may guess at the answers like I often do, but you can take what jlccoffee says to the bank. That's a fact.

"Arterial worms, Elaeophora scheideri, parasitize wild ruminants and are usually associated with facial swelling due to food impactions and occasionally cause damage to teeth or jaw bones. High worm loads result in reduced blood flow to the face which causes facial paralysis. This paralysis will cause food to collect in the jaw area.

The adult nematode typically resides in the carotid arteries of the host where females produce larvae which lodge in the capillaries of the skin on the head. The larvae are ingested by horseflies taking a blood meal, where they continue to develop and are then transmitted back to a deer where they migrate to the brain and then back to the carotid arteries."
-Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission

As Fur indicated, Mr. Coffee is dead on correct.