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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> Most often for a goat or deer I will skin the carcass and quarter it and age
> the quarters.  But if it's a favorable cold outside, in the 20's at night 
> and
> low 40's in the day (and these days are getting rare!), I will hang the
> unskinned carcass whole.  If you let rigor mortis come and go, the carcass 
> is much
> easier to handle.
>

Thanks, James, that makes sense. I aged some quarters in a cooler last
spring. I'm hoping to hit a good cold spell to age these, but like you
say, that's rare.

Rob - Va