A well-cooked chicken has been a familiar recipe on Kenyan tables at all times of the day whenever a visitor visits the home. To some families, it is probably the only time that the children and other family members get a taste of the delicious meal. Slaughtering chicken is a show of gratitude and that you are happy for the arrival of the visitor and do appreciate that their visit is indeed out of the love they have for you, at least according to majority communities in the better part of the habitable parts of the country. The colour of the feathers is of least concern when slaughtering a chicken for the visitors. However, among the Luhya and majority communities in the western parts of the country, slaughtering a black-feathered chicken for the visitors spells doom to the home as well as the visitors for the entire period the visitors will be around.Black is associated with doomed finality and incorporating it in a meal will mean starvation as that will be disguisedly the last meal you have the entire period the visitors are present. This also signifies bad luck, for instance, death and disease in the home for a very long time. Moreover, a calamity could befall the home during the time of the meal or immediately after. Therefore, black chicken is only used to breed other chicken but not eaten. They are left to grow old and then left to die or are destroyed. They are sometimes fed to the dogs.
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Why slaughtering black chicken for visitors is a taboo
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Slaughtering Black-feathered chicken among the Luhya is prohibited as it symbolizes doomed finality[Photo/purlypoultry,com]
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