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Offline Digital Caveman

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Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« on: January 12, 2023, 05:56:08 pm »
Has anyone here ever cleaned a snowshoe hare and found that the lungs look blotchy?  I cleaned one earlier today and everything seemed perfectly normal, except that the light pink lungs had dark blood red patches on them.  Does anyone here have first-hand experience with this?

It was rifle killed, and the shot entered at the base of the jaw and exited about through the eye.  Unfortunately, it took some seconds to die, so maybe it inhaled blood, or should I be concerned about disease?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2023, 06:45:01 pm »
I'd contact the State Wildlife to see if they know or could suggest someone that would. Just out of caution I don't think I'd eat it.
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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2023, 07:14:57 pm »
Yes I've seen that before
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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2023, 09:49:05 pm »
Yes I've seen that before

How did you deal with it?
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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2023, 05:10:49 pm »
Ate him
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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2023, 09:10:40 am »
This.

Offline Allyn T

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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2023, 06:57:29 am »
Probably Tularemia, it's also known as rabbit fever.
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Re: Blotchy Rabbit Lungs?
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2023, 06:04:19 pm »
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