Growth on a doe

[dakids]

Anybody have an idea what this is?

[HUNTER2]

Big ASS woodtick

[corny13]

My buddy a few years ago shot a doe with a similar growth on the neck same region... it was a melanoma.  We had a pathologist friend look at it under the microscope.    Horses when they get melanomas get them near ears and tail region also...

[dakids]

Thanks corny13.  Safe to eat?

[MNBucKKiller]

Turtle hitching a faster ride...

[Go Big Red!]

It's a tattoo.... in the shape of a bullseye

[deadeye]

I agree with Big Red, it looks like a target to me.

[corny13]

I prob wouldnt eat her, but I dont eat those walleyes with tumors on them either...Ranchers eat cancer eye cows all the time...but again I wouldnt...some cancers are caused by viruses... best to eat healthy looking critters IMO.

[dakids]

I asked around and was told to check out  Cutaneous Fibromas.   
http://www.mdwfp.com/level2/wildlife/game/deer/articles.asp?article=115

Looks like it to me.

[corny13]

Shope's Papilloma virus was the first virus ever to be proven to cause cancer... about 20% will turn into a squamous cell carcinoma.  Its real common in cottontail rabbits in the minneapolis area.  The bottom picture on your link looks more like it in rabbits. 

[HUNTER2]

Doesn't it make you hungry looking at those things.

[tuna]

nothing that a hot frying pan wouldnt take care of 

[dakids]

The growth is getting bigger.