Hey everyone! Maybe its nothing, but what do you think?

[P8riot]

Got my 2nd doe and the wife wanted to look into freeze drying the lungs. Everything looked normal inside the deer but as my wife was handling the lungs, she felt hard bb like things in them. There were some just under the surface. Ofcourse my google search shows terrifying pictures of tuberculosis, but the inside of the rib cage looked completely normal and the lungs visually appeared normal. I didn't mess with my first doe's lungs because my shot got into the guts and I just wanted to get it out quick.
Tuberculosis has not been seen in Western IN, but some on the eastern border with OH.
Thoughts?

 

[Floki]

I’ve personally never messed with the lungs,so won’t be much help. What kind of shape was the deer in health wise?

we plug one today I’ll take a look at lungs see what I see . Honestly tho I would be worried much.

curious as to why you are freeze flashing them tho?

 

[Dannmann801]

I have never even heard of eating lungs.
What's that like?

Heart? Always
Kidneys? Yum
Liver? Pass...although my SIL partakes.
Just never even considered lungs...

 

[Jamie]

I have never eaten the lungs of anything, but I have dried deer lungs for dog treats. Never saw or noticed anything like that while cutting them up, which is a big pain in the ass, btw. I would look into that before eating or feeding to a dog. For the amount of time and effort I spent on it, I would rather just buy dried beef lung for them and let the coyotes have the lungs. Besides squirrel heart/lung/liver, dried beef lung is their favorite treat, anyway.

 

[P8riot]

I honestly would never have never noticed anything wrong if I would have discarded the guts as normal. I usually take a quick glimpse for anything odd, quickly locate the heart and remove it and move on. The deer was very healthy, good fat layer and hefty. The heart looked good (what was left - I hit it pretty good with my shot) lungs, liver, kidneys, bladder all looked good. The rest of it all just blends in as stomach and intestines to me. My wife wanted to try to use more of the deer and since the shot was good and the gutting went well, I figured why not. It wasnt until she started cleaning the lungs that she found that. I took the lungs out and I didn't feel anything at that time. She also cleaned the heart, liver and kidneys and they were in good shape.

I think she is making a bigger deal than she needs to considering how good everything else looked. The lungs were not packed full of those bb sized lumps. You had to go looking for them and they were just under the surface. She was able to pick them off with limited effort by digging a little. Anything I saw online was on the surface and very apparent and does not look like it would pick off! But I do understand her worry.

 

[P8riot]

I have never even heard of eating lungs.
What's that like?

Heart? Always
Kidneys? Yum
Liver? Pass...although my SIL partakes.
Just never even considered lungs...

She was going to freeze dry them for the dogs as Jamie mentioned. I told her we will just not do the lung part, but now she is worried about the rest of the deer. I told her it is fine, but we have 50+ lbs of meat and 1 year for any ailment to be this deer's and my fault if anything happens!!

 

[giles]

Dogs drink out of the same puddles the deer do. With that being said, my rule has always been "when in doubt, throw it out". I would discard the lungs and roll on without any more thought.