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yeah, a yearling who walked within 10' of me. Wear gloves back in '05 - '09 because of the TB issues. Till I checked the lungs, I wore gloves.
Always good to wear the gloves anyway. I nicked myself a few years ago and got a nasty infection in my hand. Plus, easy clean up!
You know what's funny about that....several years ago (maybe 7 or 8) my DH sliced his finger open (forgot he was using a brand new knife - duh!) while skinning a deer, he duct taped it up and kept at it, because between him and his buddy they had 2 to deal with. Later when I finally took him to the hospital, the doctor was happy that he did it skinning a deer - he said it's one of the cleanest places your hands can be! (It took 13 stitches to put his finger back together.)
When you got the infection, was it a gut-shot animal, or were the intestines broken during cleaning, by chance?