Wisconsin hunter bags deer with 7 legs, and he eat it

[madokie]

Wed Dec 13, 9:00 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap_on_fe_st/seven_legged_deer

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it's a real rarity."

He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.

When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."

[Deja Q]

1. Why not let it breed first? Make more little delicious freaks?

:shrug:


Though I doubt he put the rack on the wall...

[madokie]

3. Son just smoked some deer back strap yesterday

brought me over some, just not for me. He, like me, is not a hunter but his bestest bud, cousin, hunts all the time and gave it to him.

[HereSince1628]

2. I don't think eating a road-killed deer is all that uncommon here

or in other parts of the country.

[SmokingJacket]

4. I've done it.

It's better than letting it rot on the side of the road.

However, I'd think twice before eating a deer with a parasitic twin.

[madokie]

5. nothing wrong with it being road kill, lots of vultures survive that way, Just kidding

but this was a deer that was a freak of nature so it should have been studied, methinks

[Deep13]

6. "'I guess it's a real rarity.'"

Hmm, yah think?
:evilgrin:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

7. "Tasted a little like bald eagle . . . " N/T

[nuxvomica]

8. That weren't no deer, that were Oscar!

I betcha man's first and only encounter with an alien life form ended that way, too: "Weirdest opossum I ever saw but it sure was tasty!"

[rodeodance]

9. the DNR did take pics

Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko's property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.

"I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I've been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself," Bilgo said. "It wasn't anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that."

Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.

John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn't going to waste the venison from the animal.

"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."

[Quantess]

11. I would love to see the photos!

Sounds creepy...

[Fierce]

10. Many deer are a little freaky.

The doe with horns, the deer with both sex characteristics. Happens every year, and they're all just as tasty.

[semillama]

12. I saw one of those small white-tails that live on teh coastal islands in South Carolina

with a whopping big tumor hanging off of it. You get big, exploding populations such as deer, you're going to run across those with problems before they get weeded out.