Beaver pearls

Anybody ever find anything like this? In all the years I've been trapping I don't recall ever running into this. The knife hit this "thing" embedded in the leather just like how you find a puss pocket. But this one was hard like a bullet and ensconced in the leather. Completely calcified.

Lead, puss yes but nothing like that!

Maybe I'll sell it on Ebay for about the same amount of money somebody would pay for Elvis' old pocket comb.

Could be a the silver tip of a lead bullet!

I am curious if any other big beaver producers have seen this before. I'm somewhere over 7000 for beaver in my lifetime and I believe it's the first I've seen.

I've never seen anything like that.

7000……. How do you even type??? My hand are numb after 4!!!! Really cool find btw!!!!

How hard is it? I would assume soft if calcium. I suppose there is a slight possibility it could silica. If so you might want to have it worked into a setting on a ring.

never seen or even heard of that before

It is extremely hard but light weight. At some point I'll weigh it on my gram scale.

This is the pelt it came out of, a nice blanket female off the Willamette river near where I live. You can see the kind of puss-pocket hole that it came out of; but there was no puss associated with it.

That is a government tracking device. Now they know where you live.

What does it taste like?

Id wager that's been there for a long time, probably a year. Probably have something in the center of it if you cut it open or had it x-rayed

According to a biologist/archaeologist friend of mine, people frequently have calcifications in them like that. They find a lot of calcifications at ancient burial sites.

Keith

Cool.
Here is a thought! Maybe it's a piece of clam shell or fish bone small rock? that healed into a cut. Then over time wore it round and crusted over?
Like others Ive found bird shot and 22 bullets in beaver and other critters. In deer found healed in broad heads. Never seen any thing hard was usually like scar tissue ball or puss around items.
Maybe have mineral person look at it with a loop?


Mac

Cut my foot on a beer bottle when I was in college.
Had something similar come up months later but significantly smaller.

Doc that cut it out said it was some type of foreign body that my body had calcified.

SniperBBB has the right idea

Beaver are getting ready to evolve into oysters!! You found the missing link.

That looks like a kidney stone from Kentucky.

Beaver ambergris

Beaver Birth control implant

I'm thinking maybe I need to cut it open or candle it and find out if there is foreign material that started the pearl.

Could be a whole new industry waiting to happen: We live catch beavers; inject their hide with some grains of sand or whatever, and then dead-catch them after the pearls are big enough!

cool !!! I have never seen anything like it , thanks for sharing

Alien chip

Well Carl, I have found those in several beaver. I don't remember where I caught them, good chance one was from the Willamette. I used to ask biologists about things like that, and got few answers that I trusted. I suspect it is a calcified growth around something, like a thorn tip. Just a guess though.

did ya cut it open lets see what that looks like

Thanks for sharing. Never seen anything like it.

mac

My thoughts exactly. Could be a little piece of barbed wire that the growth formed around. Or maybe a steel shot pellet that triggered the growth.

You guys that always want to just cut something open.. You never watched the blob when you was a kid. LMAO

Mac

I have a big, movable knob on my left knee, just below the kneecap. When I was in 4th Grade a kid stabbed me there with a pencil and the lead broke off. Lots of calcification on it but you can still see the little black spot in the middle of it. It's a real bugger when I kneel on a hard surface.

Moosetrot

Some kid with a good slingshot went home telling a story about how his trophy got away!.

Uh oh, did this happen at a school in northern Indiana around 1979, and is your name Danny?
If so, I apologize moosetrot. I was not fully in control of my emotions in fourth grade. But in all fairness I plainly told you what was going to happen if you stepped on my fingers again next time my pencil fell between our desks, but you didn’t listen…

Wonder if it's a calcified piece of bvr tooth ?

Pretty cool! Much rather find that than this.

Geez! That's almost more puss than rat!

Nope! In 1979 I was out of High School for 8 years. It happened at St. Mary's Catholic grade school in Pewaukee, WI....about 3 years before I got kicked out. If you would have stabbed me with a pencil in 1979 we may have had an "issue". LOL!

I don't think any of us were fully in control of anything in 4th Grade...

Moosetrot