What hits a visitor to China's wild animal markets immediately is the smell. It is an odour so overwhelmingly putrid that one would leave at once if one did not have any real business to be there.
Chickens, ducks, geese, swans, pigs, goats and sheep are commonplace and kept in separate pens.
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