Fw: [TheForge] bone clean up

Mon Dec 16 19:56:26 2002

Warbels are a fly like insect that we sometimes get in cattle, cats and
dogs.  On a cow, they enter the foot as a larvae (maggot) and eat their way
up to the cow's back.  There they eat a small sphere where they pupate into
their adult stage, eat a hole out the skin and fly off.  You can feel these
bumps with holes in the summer.

I don't want to know when they pass through my steaks but I figure if I
butcher in the spring, I don't have a problem.

Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Marthanis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] bone clean up

>Are the live flesh eating maggots here in the US? I've heard of them in
>Africa and South America but haven't heard mention of them here. Not to
>indicate they aren't, but have just never heard one way or the other.
>
>Chad
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
>Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:37 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] bone clean up
>
>Dave,
>
>Well thank you very much for clarifying you weren't including Bob and I
>among the maggots!
>
>Anyway, I'd like to add the perhaps pedantic clarification that SOME
>maggots eat only dead flesh.  There are maggots that delight on live
>flesh, too, however.
>
>In the present context, it makes little difference.  Basically, leave
>the bones out for the insects, and everything but maybe the ligaments
>and cartilege will be eaten.  Some bugs may even eat those.
>
>In the dry parts of the country, dermestid beetles still may be active.
>You do NOT want to encourage dermestid beetles around your home.  But if
>you have some place remote from home, then you can leave the bones there
>and soon they'll attract little spotted greyish beetles and their fuzzy
>larvae. They seem to like their food dry.  Get them in your home and
>your woolens, leather, etc., etc., are goners.
>
>Getting back to maggots, for a moment:  For the sake of the
>non-squeamish (blacksmiths aren't squeamish, are they?) the main
>practical reason for distinguishing the live-flesh-eating from the
>dead-flesh-eating is for medical reasons.  Seems that in a pinch an
>excellent treatment for festering wounds is maggots.  The ones that eat
>dead flesh only.  These clean out the wound and leave behind the health
>tissue.   Get the wrong maggots, however, and you've got worse problems!
>
>Bruce
>
>>>> [email protected] 12/13/02 08:58PM >>>
>At 20:10 12/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>><PRE>maggots ???? you gotta be kiddin !!!
>
>I wouldn't kid you.  I might kid Bob Schade or Bruce Freeman, but
>certainly
>not you.  They (maggots, not Bob or Bruce) thrive on dead flesh.
>They're
>even used for cleaning infected and festering wounds.  They don't eat
>the
>living flesh/meat, only the dead stuff.
>
>
>Dave Brown
>Heritage Smithing
>Green Bay, WI
>ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
>
>
>
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