The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs

If there's one thing you can take away from this, and I can't stress this enough: don't kill that thing. Personally, I would have tried to find out if the goose could hypothetically be bred with another, perhaps normal goose whereby I could then derive other metals-- precious or otherwise through a complicated, though albeit measured as to prevent inbreeding, chain of husbandry thereby I could basically have any metal I'd like. He really slept on the industrial opportunities here. Cautionary tale. Must read.