Do you wear rubber gloves cleaning hogs?

[Spinealigner]

Lately, I have been wearing gloves on all critters I start cutting on.  More so for the clean up factor.  But for pigs I will double glove.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I remember some old saying...an ounce of prevention is worth a penny earned or something? [/QB]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  

[Cane Knife]

I wear those long disposable gloves that come up to your armpits and then I put surg. gloves over that to snug for better feel.  Protection plus, clean up is a whiz.  If I touch something like bowel, I strip off the surg. gloves and put on another pair.  Easy.  I use when I clean anything, even big fish.

[TDHunter]

Gloves are cheap! cheap! and are a great Idea for many different animals.

[EL Mejor]

WOW GOOD INFO...

[okcaveman]

I rarely ever wear gloves and throughout the year il clean everything that we have a hunting/fishing season on. No problems....Yet. It is really scary when you take a wildlife disease course and see what is out there and I for one will tell yall that its better safe than sorry. Now I just need to learn to take my own advice

[tarponnut]

I have had two friends in the past year nearly die from swine brucelosis. They both have killed hundreds of hogs, one always wears gloves the other never used to.
I've read that it can be contracted simply by breathing it in and doesn't have to get into a cut, necessarily.
I always wear gloves now when cleaning them.

[tradtusker]

From my Understanding you can contract Brucelosis just from breathing it in.

I very seldom use glove's, i prob should but skin so many it difficult to keep enough gloves.
Like mentioned though they are cheap, and worth using

I have started to carry Dettol "Instant hand sanitizer" in my pack
if you kill and cut up a lot of hogs or any animals for that matter
look it up
put some in your pack
works great

hunt hard

Andy Ivy

[Swinestalker]

I've cleaned hundreds of hogs and other critters with no problems. After reading this thread, seems maybe I've been lucky!

[hefty hunter]

universal precautions, if blood is going to be involved i wear gloves, and always wash my hands afterwards. the cost is so cheap it does not make sense not to use them

[landman]

I use rubber gloves, typically the dish washing kind, whenever I field dress any mammal at any time of the year.   The gloves I use will occasionally tear though, so I looked around and found these...kinda pricey but probably reusable.  

http://www.sears.com/t-h-g-arms-length-rubber-latex-all-purpose-cleaning-glove/p-SPM6108016508P?prdNo=1

[Mongo]

Nope, I don't use them for Deer, Sheep r Goats either.

[smokin joe]

Yep. Big, thick yellow gloves from the grocery store -- the dishwashing type. Cheap insurance I think.

[smokin joe]

I should add that I use gloves for all big game cleaning.

[JohnV]

Gloves are a very good idea when field dressing, skinning, and/or butchering any animal. People have gotten very sick and some have even died from diseases contracted from handling dead animals. Chances are you will never have a problem but tell that to the few that have gotten very sick or the families of those who have died from contracted diseases.

[gringol]

Not using gloves is like not wearing a harness in a treestand.  You might get away with it for a long time, some can get away with it for their whole life, but really what's the point of chancing it?  One infected animal is all it takes to put you in the hospital.  Gloves are cheap, don't take up much space, are light, and could save your life and your health.  Really, what's the downside?

I use nitrile rubber gloves always, no matter what kind of animal I'm cleaning.  A box of 100 pairs costs around $20.

[Medic85]

Not sure if this link has been posted yet but I thought it might be useful...

http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/health-disease/swine-brucellosis/

[wtpops]

I spend a lot of money on this sport, equipment,hunts and and so on. the gloves are darn near free, why not use them.

[halfseminole]

I nearly died four times from an infection in my face, and it took multiple surgeries that took all my teeth as well as some muscle, and left me with permanent neurological damage to kill it.  Lost a kidney from the drugs.  

Mine was never sourced-they had never seen anything like it before.  Wear the gloves.  It's better safe than sorry.

[flyfisher76544]

Yep, wear gloves with hogs....might have to start on deer as well.