I would love to learn to do our own butchering! As it is we have only done chickens. It didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. I do have a bit of a problem eating them though. We don't have meat chickens and some were about 3 years old so they were a little scrawny compared to what you get in the store. We will get meat chickens next year and by then I hope to have acclimated us to the taste of meat that isn't loaded in chemicals.