weird growth on deer papillomavirus????

[cowboy bowhunter]

Has anyone ever seen this before and had experiance with it on deer. Look at the chest of my deer.

[Stump]

Did you cut into it at all?

[briggd]

Yes we had a deer last year we named Tumor. I let him walk thinking he might get through i. He has not been seen this year. Last year we got lots of trail cam pics.

[briggd]

here is the video of one

[newhntr]

Yes, this is more common on whitetails than you would probably expect...I forget the technical name, but, essentially its a water tumor. It is totally harmless to the deer, and would have eventually go away.

There was an arcticle on this in Deer & Deer Hunting magazine a few years back...and man, did they have some pictures to go with the arcticle!

If you try to google it, look for hydro, and tumor on whitetails....im sure you would find some info on it.

[cowboy bowhunter]

Here is a picture from august when he still had spots you can see the growth.

[smbrickner]

wierd

[BCApseAddict]

wierd growth will that stay from year to year?

[DeerHuntingPodcast]

If I'm not mistaken, that's called a hydrocyst. They're fairly common and usually caused by some kind of injury. They can be smaller than the one on your deer, or they can be so large that they actually make it hard for the deer to get around, making them an easy meal for predators.
Pretty nasty looking, but the meat is safe to eat - although it does kinda turn your stomach.