Butchering Chickens at Kampar Market in Malaysia

When I visited the "wet" part of the Kampar market, I stumbled upon the poultry area where shoppers take their pick of live chickens, which are then slaughtered, plucked and packaged with clockwork-like efficiency.

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1) Get live chicken from the cagebutchering_chickens_3.jpg


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2) Cut throat and put in blue barrel

















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3) Boil, boil, trouble and toil.....


















5) Spin in de-feathering drumbutchering_chickens_6.jpg

butchering_chickens_4.jpg6) Stir, pluck & clean

butchering_chickens_1.jpg7) Ready to go !


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Kampar Market in Malaysia
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