Roe buck,

[bob.243 9,030]

Hi,

 

Attached is a photo of the rib cage (sorry about the quality) of a Roe buck I shot a few weeks ago, the lumps are quite hard, I think it may have been hit with a car at some point and the ribs have healed, I have been stalking for man. years and never come across this before.

 

Has anyone else come across this before, could it be something else rather than broken ribs.

 

Regards

Bob.

[martin 332]

Yes Bob it is where the ribs have been previously broken and have calcified around the break into a lump.I've not seen it in any Deer,but,you do get a lot of it with lambs for some reason...........Martin

 

p.s. I've had a broken rib,so I know it must of been very painful.

[bob.243 9,030]

Yes Bob it is where the ribs have been previously broken and have calcified around the break into a lump.I've not seen it in any Deer,but,you do get a lot of it with lambs for some reason...........Martin

 

p.s. I've had a broken rib,so I know it must of been very painful.

 

Cheers Martin.

[HUnter_zero 58]

Has anyone else come across this before, could it be something else rather than broken ribs.

 

Regards

Bob.

 

Bob, were these lumps hard? TB lesions can form along the ribs and look remarkably like what you have shown! Did you fully inspect the pluck & head lymph nodes? Did you try to incise these lumps?

 

John

[bob.243 9,030]

Has anyone else come across this before, could it be something else rather than broken ribs.

 

Regards

Bob.

 

Bob, were these lumps hard? TB lesions can form along the ribs and look remarkably like what you have shown! Did you fully inspect the pluck & head lymph nodes? Did you try to incise these lumps?

 

John

Hi John,

 

Yes the lumps were very hard same as the rib bones, the pluck and lymph nodes looked OK as was the liver no different to any others I've seen, but what I will say is I think it was quite an old Buck and not in great condition, it had quite a number of full ticks around it's neck, throat and chin area.

 

Bob.

[HUnter_zero 58]

Hi John,

 

Yes the lumps were very hard same as the rib bones, the pluck and lymph nodes looked OK as was the liver no different to any others I've seen, but what I will say is I think it was quite an old Buck and not in great condition, it had quite a number of full ticks around it's neck, throat and chin area.

 

Bob.

 

I'll be honest and say that I've never seen anything like it, other than with severe cases of bovine TB and that was a long time back, but if the lumps were calcified then the only explanation would be due to damaged ribs.

 

 

John