Thread: When to skin a animal?

Butcher told me,get the deer or legs home.Take the skin off ASAP the next morning and hang in a cool flyless place for 3 days or so.I had a fan blowing on the last 10 hind quarters for 3 days(5deer over last month).Meat went a little blackish on surface but tasted nice in 50 kgs of saugages and steakes.
Butcher said skin stops the heat escaping under it and your meat will start to go off under it very quickly over the next few hours depending on your access to a chiller and out side temperature.