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Something wrong with this Sow?

 
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Hogs are an invasive pest animal around here, so the meat is easy to come by. However, this sow has strange teats to my non-pig-keeper eye. Is this mastitis? A tumor? Possibly just developing? Some of the other teats express normal-looking milk so she was definitely lactating.
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The two weird teats also have normal milk
 
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I don't know much about sows... but my first thought was probably mastitis. Then I searched and the internet says mastitis or edema are probably the most likely causes.
 
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Well, we hosed down the belly and discovered the apparent entry wound for infection. We were pretty darn tired at that point and decided to write the hog off as compost.
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Once you harvest the meat it will be more apparent what the problem is.

If that appears to be a tumor the meat would be better not consumed.

Meat with a cyst is something okay to consume, meat not cyst.

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