I thought I'd never be able to slaughter my own animals, and to this day I still haven't. I only have 6 layers right now but plan on getting a few more breeds and expanding my flock for both meat and eggs, as well as ducks, turkey, hogs, cow and lamb.
Good luck! Just remain calm and soothing like some of those awesome you tubers do...I've heard a stressed out bird is a bad tasting bird!I am on the same page as you it sounds. I'm thinking of raising a piglet next season and plan to get a ram in March to go over my three ewes. I purchased pregnant and they lambed here. Sent off on the stock trailer at 8 months. Absolutely beautiful lamb, the best i have eaten. I only have 1.5 acres but it is very fertile with good grass. My husbands family own the local butchers here so i'm lucky to have all the connections for the processing side. I'd love to get more involved next time and even cure the lambskins so nothing is wasted. I invested in a quality incubator today and hope to do a few hatches a year of meat birds that i keep seperate and process as soon as they are full size. I don't have room for a cow, but many people around me run them so that isn't hard to sort out. I have a breeding pair of geese and might even think about goose for the table at least for xmas each year. I will report back after i do the deed tomorrow! It will be a start
) the thought did occur to me that it wouldn't be that much more of a stretch to kill one if i had to.. in a pinch.. You know if i couldn't go buy chicken anymore. Haha a funny thought to have, but a goose is a powerful bird and mine are not hand raised so to do that without fuss and with no help, i felt pretty capable 
Sounds like a great plan! You've gotta start somewhere, if you plan on hatching for the freezer.
Kudos to you!!! Geese scare me, I stay away from them at parks LMBO they are aggressive as heck to get that stale bread you're feeding the ducks. Though I'm talking about Canadian geese here...they are jerks.Thanks! I seem to have good luck so far with keeping my animals calm. I have had to do plenty of hands on stuff with them, i remember when i was clipping my goose's wings when i first got them (the breeder had told me stories of them taking out their powerlines mind you
Or butter chicken! with a side of saag mmmmm (the only Indian dish I've cooked thus far lol)You always can call him "Hen"!
Bon a petite!
Chicken Curry with coconut cream sounds yummy!
