In warm weather i try to get the hog to the butcher within a couple of hours.If that is not possible,i always call someone as soon as i kill the hog and have them get some bags of ice. i field dress the hog where it fell, fill the body cavity with bags of ice and get it to the butcher ASAP.If the animal cannot be gotten to the butcher until the next day it goes in my pickup box with more ice unless it is a big one.If it is a big one it goes into a huge wooden box with ice.

We usually have the hams made into steaks and lots of sausage madeup.

Getting the hair off a hog for a pig roast is kinda difficult.When we used to butcher in the winter we dunked the entire hog into a 55 gallon drum of boiling water and scrapedthe hairoff. i just let the butcher skin it.

A game animal can spoil very quickly when the temperature is over 80-90 degrees. OK elk bow season usually opens inearly Octoberwhich is much too early.Know a guy who did not havea planand his huge bull elk spoiledin about five or six hours.