What do you do with deer fat?

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The last deer I got this Sunday was fat fat fat. When I was gutting it I found fat everywhere. I know how to use bear fat, but what about deer? I'm still keeping the fat just in case that I might be able to use it.
 
I just throw it out as scrap or for the cats on the farm. deer fat and tallow have such a stong wild taste they get completely trimmed off all meat.
 
Birds :cool:
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I'm keeping most of the guts. :eek: :p The heart and liver were untouched by the bullet this time. True I didn't know that the neck meat was tasty, but this time with this bulky neck I'm not throwing it away.

But can I apply deer fat on my boots for waterproof?
 
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I've never noticed deer fat to have a strong taste. It's just very tallowy, like mutton fat.

The reason for swelling necks is that the buck has glands in its neck that swell with testosterone buildup and is also helped by the drinking of the does urine while she's in extrus. bearhunter
 
Levi Garrett said:
I figure their are a few good organs in the pile. The Liver and Heart are not tossed. :D .
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Not for me. There are three basic parts to an animal. 1/ Hair & Hide. 2/ Meat. 3/ Guts. I check the liver over pretty good as an indicator of an aminals health & condition, but if someone doesn't want it, I usually leave it on a stump for seed.;)
 
I always put it into the mesh bags that onions come in and hang it on a tree I can see from the window. The chickadees, nut hatches and a couple of types of wood peckers like to eat it. My dogs always watch me putting it up and wonder how they are supposed to get the ladder over to get at the fat.

Robin down under:)
 
Duffy said:
I always put it into the mesh bags that onions come in and hang it on a tree I can see from the window. The chickadees, nut hatches and a couple of types of wood peckers like to eat it. My dogs always watch me putting it up and wonder how they are supposed to get the ladder over to get at the fat.

Robin down under:)
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My grandpa taught me that one :dancingbanana: Give the dogs a bit tho;)
 
I had so much I rendered some down and put it in one-pound peanut butter containers. What I'm going to do with it I don't know.

I also peeled it off the butt of this fat buck I got and will maybe put it out for the chickadees if we get a cold snap.

I mixed some half-and -half with bear fat for boot grease one time. The bear fat has the viscosity and the deer tallow the stiffness.
 
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Usually save it and send it to my mom when I go visit for her suet cage, they got a good pic a couple years ago when they woke up in the morning and found a bobcat hanging off it trying to get the fat out.
 
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