[esmith]

I have read and people are saying stuff that indicates sickness in game. I know to look at a liver of a rabbit for white spots. But what else? Particularly in rabbit, turkey and deer which is what i will probably be hunting.

[gdvan01]

Worms, stench...

;-)

[Bartkowski]

For deer, I would just look for gangreen and other obvious things on the animal. After the first frost, the parasites on the rabbits die so they shouldn't be a problem.

[Loyalist Dave]

Look at the nose of the deer, especially look into the nostrils to see if worms have eaten the tissue. CWD is neurologic, so don't eat the brains nor use them for tanning leather.

Avoid rabbits near to where they have built houses. As we allow the developers to encrouch upon our faming/hunting lands, we allow McMansions to be built. Most of the so called weeds in your lawn are actually edible to people. Read the label on some turf-builder for what it kills, and it's a laundry-list of wild edible plants. The bunnys will move from the hunting areas to the adjacent neighborhoods to feed, and they like weeds, ingest the chemicals, and you get a lower dose of the same stuff when you eat the bunnies. The bunnies I hunt and eat don't come from fields adjacent to turf farms or developements.

LD

[ArmedBear]

I just noticed a stench coming from the corner of the garage where my semi-ready-to-go hunting duffle bag sits. Upon further examination, I found that it came from my upland game and shell carrier belt. I thought it was just a little too much dove blood from two hunts over Labor Day weekend in extreme desert heat.

But no, I'd been right when I'd scratched my head and thought I'd shot one more dove than I put in the cooler. I found the "extra" one in the bottom of my game bag, where it had been for a week.

Judging by the stench, the meat was bad.

I'll never be sure, though, since I won't be eating it. I chucked it out, far from my house, in a receptacle put along our neighborhood street for dog crap. There was a bunch of dog crap already in the can. The dog crap smelled like fine perfume, compared to the dove.