2,275. The Difference Between Domesticated and Wild Animals

Maachalos Assuros 1:9

While all ten kosher species may be eaten, there is nevertheless a difference between kosher domesticated animals and kosher wild animals: the fat of a wild animal may be eaten and its blood must be covered. When it comes to kosher domesticated animals, one is liable for the penalty of kareis (spiritual excision) for eating certain fats and the blood need not be covered.

Maachalos Assuros 1:10

According to our oral tradition, the kosher signs of a wild animal are that it has split hooves, chews its cud and has horns that branch like those of a gazelle. All such animals are certainly kosher. If the horns don’t branch like a gazelle’s, then if they’re curved like those of an ox, notched like those of a goat but with the notch embedded in them, and spiral like those of a goat, then it’s a kosher wild animal. The horns must have these three signs: curved, notched, and spiral.