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Published: 2013-09-24 00:20:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 54131; Favourites: 1816; Downloads: 123
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A chart/graphic for my portfolio cause I really needed an example of that.
This was really fun to work on. The purpose is to tell what parts of an hunted animal is used or consumed, but also which kind of meat comes from which part of the body(in general.)Β
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As someone who knows how to clean/skin a deer and the basics of butchery... this is fabulous and accurate! Also, just the word "stew meat" made me hungry.
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Wait... so people actually use animals feets as wall hangers?
I can't help but imagine human feet on the wall xD And I don't even know why I find it so riddiculously funny.
Good job on drawing meat anyway
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This is really interesting actually. It's really interesting to see where each cut of meat comes from and how different parts of the animal can be utilized (hoof wall hangers--ingenious!).
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Thanks for this informative chart! I find it so useful, even though I'm not a hunter. Also, as a biologist, I'd say the skeleton could be used for research and educational purposes, specially limbs and skull. Donations of those aren't frequent, so if hunters and zoologists coworked, we could have more samples to study and learn about them.
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A running, free deer would look better, I guess.
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and what about all these animals? I bet you don't ever care about them.Β
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Mouse flavored cat food? That's available now?
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Wait, make up? And fertilizer? I didn't know that.
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Make up contains oils that comes from farmed animals.
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Just about every product out there we use, is derived from an animal in some way, shape or form.
Not just ones for us, but as noted above, with stuff for our animals as pets as well.
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Actually I do, and take action also.
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And I will still eat animals
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My dad keeps sayin' he can contact his cousins to get me out hunting but has been putting it off. I'd really like to hunt in the future rather than support whatever crazy things are going on with meats in the grocery stores.
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I also want to hunt, but it costs a lot of money for an hunting education here. probably over 800 euros. :C
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Oh wow...let alone the equipment you're going to need and also depending if you'll be getting the meat cut by a butcher or yourself. Damn that's a lot of money. D:
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Well.. Netherlands is also very very strict about their wildlife. If i would get a hunting licence all I would be able to hunt is are rabbits, crows and pidgeons. deers and boars and other wildlife are protected by law :/. So I do not see it worth to get a hunting licence in the Netherlands.
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Aww, well hey I heard rabbit meat is actually really good lol. I been meaning to try it myself but I get what you mean if it's going to be that expensive and you'd only be able to hunt rabbits really, not sure what meat you'd get off a crow or a pidgeon; it's just not worth it agh.
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Ostrich hunting!Β
But, I bet the chart probably doesn't apply to birds xD
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Brilliant, normally butchering charts only show the meat types you can get from a body but you went the full way with the miscellaneous uses. I actually learned a little from this.
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Hmm, venison is great c: My friend's family are huge hunters and I know they use every part of the animal, except for the intestines and stuff like that. When they hunt bears I'm pretty sure they make burgers out of the bear meat, and they have like two?? black bear pelts in their house. Pretty cool stuff!
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I wish I could try some black bear meat! D: allas. almost no bears in europe anymore.
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Bear and moose are very... finicky meats. Moreso bear though.
Bear is good if you're lucky enough to get one that's been eating a lot of berries and vegetation. Or fresh fish. If it's one that's been feeding on the carrion, it alters the taste of the meat rather unpleasantly.
With moose, it depends on what they eat as well, though it's less noticeable. That, and eating a cow tastes better than a bull, as the testoserone adds another kind of flavour to meat... which often isn't pleasant. Hence why most domesticated animals we eat are castrated soon after birth.
I've had bear, moose, elk, deer, wild turkey... grouse, and chukker(kind of a ground bird). Moose jerky is amazing, bear is just too much hit and miss, but deer sausage, deer bacon... oh so yummy!
My SO and I over the summer, raised our own turkeys, chickens, pigs up for food, and I learned how to properly kill, clean, and cook them. I now hate store bought meat.
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Ahh it's cool to hear how wild meats taste like of different animals. I only tried venison of a Red Deer and a Roe deer once before. Β I really liked them a lot more than beef. Sadly they are rare to find here among special butchers. (and from webshops they are quite expensive and I am a poor student now XD Β ) Β There is a Red Deer farm but I rather want to try meat from true free animals. Β One day if Β I visit America I wanna try venison of your deer species. (whitetail deer, elk or moose etc). Β I would love to raise chickens or rabbits one day but currently I don't have the time and money to care for them.Β
Sadly Netherlands is one of those heavy anti-hunting countries. You can only hunt there for pest control (crows, pigeons, geese) Β or if the government requests a cull against overpopulation.Β There are heavy restrictions so most of the hunters here go to a neighbouring country to hunt a deer.Β Β Sadly our red deer are locked in a nature reserve and because of no natural predators, the animals are overpopulatingΒ so much, each winter a few hundred deer starve from lack of food. Β The government refuses to solve the problem with hunters because they call it "nature". Β :/ Β A party in the government also once attempted to ban fishing in Amsterdam...ffff
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Very much so
One of the things I've been reading, is that it's a lot easier to raise deer, and a lot easier on the environment, to have them as a meat source over covers due to both less grain to meat ratio and less methane production; and much as seen with properly raised farm animals, the meat doesn't taste much different I've found.
If you get a chance, see if you can travel to BC, Canada. And go on a wildlife tour, and see if you can see a Mule Deer. They're the largest of the deer species, ungulate family like Elk and Moose, but seeing them in person after only seeing small little whitetails... it's incredible!
If you ever want tips on raising rabbits or chickens, look up www.backyardchickens.com/ and www.homesteadingtoday.com/#liv⦠. Very helpful and a lot of info.
I can understand where the Netherlands are coming from though. Much as it sucks, they're trying to protect what's left before they go extinct but... doing it in a knee-jerk, reactionary manner. In BC we just about had a rabbit cull, then some people stepped in, caught all the rabbits, neutered them, and were prepping them to be sent to an animal sanctuary to live out their life. We've had deer culls too, but none of the meat has been saved. A lot of hunters and farmers in these areas say capture the deer, feed them clean stuff for a month, then use the meat to feed the homeless or destitute or those on welfare. Instead, it all ends up at the landfill where it rots and benefits very little beyond scavengers and bacteria. Lots of areas in Canada are running low on wildlife and oceanlife due to prolific hunting(unfortunately, a lot of the animal counts weren't done properly, so more have been taken than what was sustainable), and some populations are facing total collapse. There's talk right now of banning salmon fishing for a year or three just to give the populations a chance to recover, so both humans, orcas, and so on down the food chain, can recover before various species go extinct. I do think it's wrong to say... let nature manage things, and then not let nature properly manage things via predators, in the case of the deer. We've hunted the wolves out of the areas, along with cougars and bears, and then wonder why the populations are so bad and various animals end up sickly. And then most hunters don't help the issue(totally understand though), because instead of taking out the sickly or weak animals, they go for ones in the prime of life, big racks, strong, etc, so the lesser ones get more of a chance to pass their genes on instead of the strong surviving. And I totally get it, who wants to eat something sickly, possibly diseased? But that's what the various predators did before we came along.
It's such a big complicated issue. How to feed everyone(can't have 7 billion+ people all eating vegan, that's it's own mess!), nor can we all decide to eat wild populations(they would go extinct), and neither can we subsist just off farm animals as they would end up pushing out the wild populations more.
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I only support hunting for food purposes. Or population control if done properly without pushing any species into an endangered stays. I am always fascinated with people living in the wild like in the Northen parts if the world like Alaska and Canada where they are dependent on natural resources and raising farm animals for survival. I hope to one day do the same thing by growing my own crops and raise chickens/rabbits, do fishing and hunting. It is like a dream to me. :3
I think both veganism , good farmers and (food) hunters have a good potential if they combined. The mayor problem we have is mass production and corporations that currently rule the world. So much edible food is being thrown away daily and we still have hungry mouths in the world! I think we should do away with mass production and capitalism and return to the trade system. Like one would trade their chicken meat for salmon for example.
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I know!! I've always told her to save some for me but she never does, haha. But that's unfortunate about bears in Europe :c
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We in canada usually get bison , elk ,salmon never tried deer I prefer bison and any sorta seafood
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XDΒ I agree with the hunting thing, I decided to go vegetarian because of all the problems mass farming causesΒ =3
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This is a really detailed chart. I really like it. I rather have Deer meat over cow and other farm raised meat.
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Mmm, I'd love to have some deer. :9
A nice roast or stew would be fantastic right about now. Too bad I don't know anyone who hunts.
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And I grind all the other little tidbits, including the liver to make the most awesome burger. Just throw in some bread crumbs, worchester sauce, pepper, onions, and celery and you got MEATBALL!!!!!
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Β MMMMM... BEEF! dunno just felt like saying itΒ
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Oh wait... It's steak.. SAME THING
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Yum! 
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This is fantastic! My stepdad hunts during deer season and cooks us deer burgers. xD
Everything we don't use we donate.
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As someone who loves venison and cannot stand farmed food, I find this a lovely piece of art.Β I hope to hunt in the future, and this is a good guide to show what comes from where.
I've never butchered a deer, so I'm going out on a limb with this: do you leave the brisket/chest muscle because it goes on the mount, or is it just not good to eat?
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For the mount you just need to provide the skin/head to the taxidermist. Some hunters skin mostly the neck and keep the whole head on it.
The chest muscle is where the rib cage would stick out, usually just an area covered in fat.
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Ahh, thank you for clearing that up.
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I'll need to look at this when I butcher.
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Why is this reminding me of Assassins Creed 3? Oh, because you can also skin a deer there! And I quite enjoy it. Also wall hangers, hahaha! I want that!
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Nice rendering. And educational, too!
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The correct term is back-strap (loin is for pigs) my fav part for steaks, very tender. Also the liver is a prized meat in my family, we have liver and onions at camp every year.
Never made wall hanger of the hooves thou? Have some wonderful buckskin I us on random crafts, including new shoes for my little one.Β
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Not really , loin is also correct word. Heard that many times in field dressing videos and when i bought a deer back-strap they also called it "loin steak".
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Yeah, NadiavanderDonk you are correct. I have two grandpa's who've taught me a thing or two about hunting/butchering and they always refer to it as loin. And I find no reason to call it otherwise. XD
This is an amazing chart! Very helpful if I ever do chop a deer up!
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Wow this is interesting. I've never eaten any parts of deer before. Never have the chance.
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