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The family are my friends. They live 1/2 off the grid by producing their own food and selling some to others.
This was the common family slaughter, each month or so; or as the birds suggest, by the terms of their efficiency (egg laying). The whole family gets together and works hard at killing, plucking, and freezing the birds…
I am, thankfully, the official slaughter photographer. We reap with our eyes, degrees of curiosity, and / or for some, horror…
…and not to mention the 17th century Northern European paintings of the fete and the feast.