One of my earliest recollections of live chickens was in cages at the old zinc-roofed Geylang Serai market.
Up till the early 1990s, chicken- and duck - stallholders at wet markets across Singapore often doubled up as butchers, reaching in for a bird when a customer wanted one.
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