Previously wounded Northern?

[Kent Contreras]

Bagged a nice Northern Drake Mallard saturday. When I opened it up for carving out the meat, to the back of the left breast plate was what looked like to me a previous wound. Not uncommon except for the fact that what I saw did surpirse me.
The "wound" looked more like something was eating the birds breast meat or it had been chewed on. Gross I know, took a couple of second looks at it. The meat just below the breast and towards the tail had a gap of flesh that had healed up to the point that it was not discolored, there wasn't any fresh sign of a shot or any other animal wound, just a gap of meat where there should have been some and exposed innards.
Any body else ever see something like this?

[letemhaveit]

wow...that is wierd...i have never seen anything like that!! It would be interesting to find out what it is though!!

[Bull Island]

that is wierd, never seen that before

[Andrew Bremseth]

maybe it has something to do with the name gutpile :P..... I had a goose that was really crazy looking on the inside as i opened it up to breast it.. I dont even know what was in there or how to even describe it but it made me want to puke. Needless to say I did NOT eat that goose.

[Connor M]

I think I have seen this before but I'm sure it was shot, I opened the breast on a big Canada to find 3 little indention like scars that were blueish gray. It was very clear to see wear my pellets went through, because they were still red and looked torn up. I looked for the old pellets but couldn't find them but I'm fairly sure it had been shot.

[quackaddict]

We shot a mallard last year that had a green tint to one side of the breast. It was previously shot and had healed, the guy who got it chose not to eat that duck.

[Corey Carston]

Im a meat inspector in New Zealand and every now and then we have some animals turn up with old wounds .A couple of months ago we had a line of lambs and 11 had 22 progecitles in there necks with no visable wounds.Lots of cattle we process have shot gun pellets in them.We see some real weird stuff ,twisted backs ,extra legs and some older stock with mummified feotes in them.Its unreal the punishment that animals and birds can take a person would just crawl away and die.

[waterfowladdict1]

We shot a mallard last year that had a green tint to one side of the breast. It was previously shot and had healed, the guy who got it chose not to eat that duck.

I shot a teal like that before. Except it was very green and yellow not just a tint.

[Lybeck]

weird my buddy shot a mallard last year that had these weird things in it's breast that looked like grains of rice I have no clue what they were but he didn't eat the bird.

[Kent Contreras]

weird my buddy shot a mallard last year that had these weird things in it's breast that looked like grains of rice I have no clue what they were but he didn't eat the bird.

I've seen that before too, I can't remember what it is exactly but it's a parasite that will continue to grow and infest the bird..........bottom line, I wouldn't eat it. The birds breast feathers were showing signs of a "mange" like syndrome and were falling out. Probably best that the bird was killed and taken out of its condition.

[Corey Sorensen]

weird my buddy shot a mallard last year that had these weird things in it's breast that looked like grains of rice I have no clue what they were but he didn't eat the bird.


It's called Rice Breast...alot of times they get it from sitting/feeding on S&^t ponds...It's weird stuff.

[CRAWLER]

I have been hunting ducks for about 10 years and never saw rice breast. This year I shot 3 greenheads in a week that had it.

[cripple]

Last year i shot a greenwing teal that had been shot and had healed but it didnt have any feathers on one side except for the wing and tail feathers but the skin was all scar tissue

[Bograt]

Might have been from a run in with a predatory bird? :confused:

[ScarySouthernMan]

A friend of mine found a .22 slug in a banded Canada...

Tell me someone wasn't doing some "selective" hunting... LOL.