The disease has spread from eastern China both northward and southward, leading to the closure of a growing number of markets where livechicken is sold as a preventative measure.
In the Cajun match races, McNamara said owners who didn't use jockeys would hedge their bets by tying beer cans filled with rocks to the horses' manes to scare them into running harder or, in some cases, fastening on a livechicken.
There are homes in this country where the only way to cook chicken is to catch the live fowl running in the garden, kill it, and prepare it for cooking.