What do you think this is?

[Butcherbill]

This was on a grouse I shot yesterday, When I got them breasted out I noticed something I’ve never seen before on the breast of the one, when I cut it off all looked normal with the meat underneath. It looked like scar tissue but once I cut it off it was more like fat, anyone else see something like this? It reminds me of the fat on our roosters when we kill and process them but grouse are never fatty.

This was after I deboned and cut the area off.

 

[FLHTCUI]

Well, it looks like a lazy fat grouse breast.
Others will be along soon.
Rob

 

[Chuckbuster]

Looks like a fat deposit to me.

 

[Brutus]

I dont know about this exactly but, I have shot grouse and the bird shot wad left a considerable bruise on the chest.
Just about the same size and shape of this blemish.

maybe an old healed wound???

 

[VanIsleCam]

Interesting Dr. Moreau...I choose to eat coconuts tonight.

 

[Butcherbill]

Interesting Dr. Moreau...I choose to eat coconuts tonight.

Hahahaha!!!

 

[billdick]

I think its an old wound that caused muscular stetosis

 

[jiffx2781]

Scar tissue. Cut it out. The rest will be fine.

 

[the spank]

Looks like a cyst from a previous wound to me. I shot one years ago that had what looked like a multi-coloured wart about as big as the end of my thumb on it’s breast. I threw it out.

 

[Butcherbill]

Scar tissue. Cut it out. The rest will be fine.

Exactly what I did

Looks like a cyst from a previous wound to me. I shot one years ago that had what looked like a multi-coloured wart about as big as the end of my thumb on it’s breast. I threw it out.

That’s what I initially thought till I cut it off after I deboned the meat, it was thin and not like a cyst or abscess. No hard lump or sac of fluid underneath it. I tend to think it is fat or scar tissue from something long gone. Maybe it was shot at and flew away lol.

 

[Longwalker]

I have seen many similar lesions on domestic turkeys that once had a small wound on the breast that later healed and left a similar off colour "fatty" bit. You did right to trim the old scar tissue and eat the rest.

 

[hoytcanon]

I think it is likely and old wound... particularly in that location. I shot a grouse 20 or so years ago that had a stick broken of in its breast in about the same location, it had healed up with fat and tissue built up around it... the bird was otherwise fine... until the 14.3 grain 20 cal. pellet hit it in the head