Still wrong......it takes temps near 2,000 degrees to destroy the CWD Prions. [/quote]

Correct me if I’m wrong , but cooking venison to 2000 degrees, wouldn’t that turn the meat to ash ? Jesh

Let me just say, you guys are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I probably would have eaten the meat otherwise. I threw it all out. I thank you so much for taking time to help me understand this.

Also, I didn't know beavers could get CWD. That's interesting.

....Now off to skin a new beaver thankfully. I got three this weekend, another this morning. If liver looks good, I'll keep it.

CWD has never been found in beavers, nor humans for that matter.
Would I recommend sucking on the spinal column, or brains of a sickly member of the deer family? No, but the topic of this thread is beavers. I don't no why CWD was introduced into this discussion.

Good point Carl.Right on.
The main concern with beaver is tularemia.That will show on the liver as white spots.
Tularemia is also a concern with muskrats and rabbits.

I caught a beaver today and it was meth teeth is that a sign of cwd in beaver? just kidding

I would say the vast amount of Beaver meat eaten is done so without the liver being examined. That said, I would not have eaten meat from that Beaver after seeing the liver. But, I probably have unknowingly done so in the past.

The beaver I got today had only a "ball point pen tip" sized little tiny white spot. I'll assume that was just nothing I guess.

So I kept the meat so far but if anyone thinks that's bad let me know.

I'm really trying to learn how to do this right so I can help people when they ask me someday. Thanks.

An old family friend who would eat things that would make most people on here puke, but he always said if there’s a question get rid of it and to shoot another one, and that pertained to everything from small game to cattle you never take the risk with food.

This what I was taught by my dad many years ago.