Decojuicer
Well-Known Member
How can I tell if my venison has gone bad.
Here's my situation. I shot a deer on opening day and quartered it out fairly quickly. Then I put it in a cooler and put it in the coldest part of my garage. Then I got busy and, well...I finally got around to processing it tonight.
It doesn't SMELL bad, but it has some brown around the edges. My garage is not heated and has been below 40 degrees since I brought the deer home. Should I go ahead and finish processing it, just cut all the brown off from around the edges? Or, should I just make it all into dog food?
To be honest, I'm not sure how this deer was going to taste anyway. He was a big old swamp buck, that was nowhere near any grain or corn. His coat was pretty dark, and his antlers were thin and small.
It wouldn't be that much of a loss to feed it to the dogs and just go shoot a couple of corn fed does next week, but I would like to save it, if I could.
Here's my situation. I shot a deer on opening day and quartered it out fairly quickly. Then I put it in a cooler and put it in the coldest part of my garage. Then I got busy and, well...I finally got around to processing it tonight.
It doesn't SMELL bad, but it has some brown around the edges. My garage is not heated and has been below 40 degrees since I brought the deer home. Should I go ahead and finish processing it, just cut all the brown off from around the edges? Or, should I just make it all into dog food?
To be honest, I'm not sure how this deer was going to taste anyway. He was a big old swamp buck, that was nowhere near any grain or corn. His coat was pretty dark, and his antlers were thin and small.
It wouldn't be that much of a loss to feed it to the dogs and just go shoot a couple of corn fed does next week, but I would like to save it, if I could.