I did that with the first set of pigs we raised last year. The male was a sweetheart and I would have kept him but he'd already been neutered..What point then? So off to the butcher they went and I thank him and her every time I ask them to supper.
When we slaughtered our first sheep, I cried like a baby WHILE AT the butcher. I cried for days. After I had a taste of the lamp, I was wondering when were we going to take the next ram to the butcher.