Letter of the month
Roe diarrhoea
I recently shot a roe deer and the back end was covered in runny excrement. I have been told this means the deer has worms. If this is true, is the meat fit for human consumption?
Paul Price, via email
Jon Snowdon says - Hello Paul and thank you for your query.
The messy diarrhoea of the roe doe that you observed sounds pretty extreme. Roe deer are generally very clean and I have only witnessed a situation like this on two or three occasions. Even though deer can and do carry intestinal parasites, from your description it sounds like there was an
