I know quite a few of us take care of our own deer. I was wondering if anyone else does other critters. I help my nephews butcher chickens occasionally. Tonight I'm getting a Hog off a former co-worker for $125. We have to shoot him and bring him home. Probably skin him tonight and pack with some ice and butcher tomorrow. The hog is about 300 lbs, so i should get close to 140 lbs of meat. With vacuum bags figured in, I will have about $160 invested. If I have time, I want to scald and scrape the head, and put it in my big smoker all day Friday. It's homecoming night at our school down the road so I think it would be cool to take a whole hogs head to the tailgate. This will be probably a dozen or so hogs I've butchered since I bought this house in 2005. It's a little bit of work, but the sheer amount of meat for the money is crazy, and I love to do it. Plus I just hate buying meat from grocery stores if possible