{"id":11566,"date":"2019-11-14T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:52:23","slug":"handling-harvested-game-from-field-to-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/handling-harvested-game-from-field-to-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling Harvested Game From Field to Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Deer<\/a>Hunting is an outdoor sport many enjoy while learning new skills, receiving fitness benefits, and bringing healthy food options to their table. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration Program<\/a>, reported 36,825 licenses for 2017 as hunting continues to be a recognized and respected sport.<\/p>\n

Purdue Extension-Forestry and Natural Resources has recently increased their resources for handling harvested game. This new video series shares step by step instructions starting with field dressing and continuing all the way through to packaging.<\/p>\n

Video Series:<\/strong>
\nHandling Harvested Game: Episode 1, Field Dressing<\/a>
\nHandling Harvested Game: Episode 2, Hanging & Skinning<\/a>
\nHandling Harvested Game: Episode 3, Deboning<\/a>
\nHandling Harvested Game: Episode 4, Cutting, Grinding & Packaging<\/a><\/p>\n

Free handling harvested game workshops are held every year in September by Purdue Extension. If you would like to attend any of the available workshops please contact Jonathan Ferris<\/a>, Wayne County Extension Director, or Dave Osborne<\/a>, Ripley County Extension Director.\u00a0 Feel free to view the Purdue Extension Calendar<\/a>\u00a0or the Purdue Extension-Forestry and Natural Resources’ Calendar<\/a>\u00a0for future scheduled workshops.<\/p>\n

Other resources:<\/strong>
\nHow to Score Your White-tailed Deer<\/a>, video, The Education Store, Purdue Extension Resource Center
\nWhite-Tailed Deer Post Harvest Collection<\/a>, video, The Education Store
\nAge Determination in White-tailed Deer<\/a>, video, The Education Store,
\nHow to Build a Plastic Mesh Deer Exclusion Fence<\/a>, The Education Store,
\nBovine Tuberculosis in Wild White-tailed Deer<\/a>, The Education Store,
\nMaine Hunting License and Rules<\/a>,\u00a0Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife<\/p>\n

More resources with Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and Purdue Extension:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Indiana Deer Hunting, Biology and Management<\/a>
\nSafe Food Handling and Preparation<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 1: Scouting<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 2: Practice<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 3: Clothing<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 4: Hunting Private Lands<\/a><\/div>\n
Deer Tips 5: Location, Location<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 6: Etiquette<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 7: Tracking<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 8: After the Harvest<\/a>
\nDeer Tips 9: Final Thoughts<\/a>
\nDeer Processing 1: Skinning<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

Bob Cordes<\/a>, Wildlife Biologist
\nMaine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife<\/p>\n

Brandon Fields, Meat Science Manager
\nPig Improvement Company (PIC)<\/p>\n

Rod N Williams<\/a>, Professor of Wildlife Science
\nPurdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hunting is an outdoor sport many enjoy while learning new skills, receiving fitness benefits, and bringing healthy food options to their table. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration Program, reported 36,825 licenses for 2017 as hunting continues to be a recognized and respected sport. Purdue Extension-Forestry and Natural Resources has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45,54],"tags":[879,176,613,227,595,880,405],"class_list":["post-11566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forestry","category-howto","category-wildlife","tag-biological-data","tag-deer","tag-game","tag-harvesting","tag-hunting","tag-meat-packaging","tag-venison"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11566"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34008,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions\/34008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}