China Hefei - Pigeons in the cage...

As I was on the way to main road side where the company bus will pick me up, I happened to see few pigeons being caged up for sales!!As I remembered seeing the chicken being caged up for sales in pasar is more of a common scene, this is really something interesting to be seen.... Have anyone of you seen this before??

Poor pigeons, I wonder were they being fed up with the same kind of food that fed chickens...