Posted on 05/24/2019 5:53:47 AM PDT by cll
HA!
Let’s do the same with the people.
Winner takes all.
Such is the life of a Sabongero. Winners walk away with the winning bird and the vanquished, losers walk away empty handed. Unless they bet against themself
I’d like to see Congress versus Cassowaries. RFK would be a convenient venue.
Cut them loose
“What happens to the slain gamecocks?”
Nothing unless a local fly-tier happens to skin out the losers.
A old rooster ( or laying hen) is too tough to eat. You could boil them for hour and they just get tougher.
I TRIED simmering one all day and it just shrunk up and got tougher than a super-ball. Even the dogs couldn’t eat it.
I bought an old laying hen at Kroger’s. Roasted, it was too tough to slice. Then I put it in a pressure cooker for 25 minutes.
Falling off the bone tender.
Free Puerto Rico from the racist running dog capitalist imperialists!
Lots of people around here used to raise cocks for fighting over in Oklahoma. I hated it when, at 5:30 AM, fifty cocks would start, all in unison their “ROOK-A-TOOK-A-ROO!”
I’ve hatched out regular chickens, and within a few months the roosters will start fighting each other for dominance, causing some real problems in the chicken house. The hens are then terrified to be in the same pen with them before I can open the door and let them out.
Now I buy only laying pullet chicks.
One reason cock fighting was banned was some of the owners would give the cocks cocaine to inure them to wounds from the razors on the competitor’s feet.
I believe one of the old reasons for banning dog and cock fighting, was old ideas of morality.
“Animals will fight. That is their nature. But when men put animals together, and derive pleasure from watching them fight, it is a sin.”
I have NEVER been to a cock fight and have no reason to go. Chicken yard fights are bad enough.
Nothing screams low class like animal fighting.
They don’t sell old laying hens for food at Kroger or anywhere else, they are too tough to eat.
I’m taking about the chickens they raise to lay eggs on a egg factory farm, not the barred rocks scratching in the yard at farm down the road.
Reminds me of the old joke of the fighting parrot vs the rooster. In the pen, the owner of the rooster slips on the gaffs, and after a few seconds, the parrot breaks and runs! squawking...”LOOK OUT! DIS MF GOT A REIZOR!”
As you drive south in east Tennessee on I 81, about exit 40 or so there is a fairly large cock farm. The shelters are blue plastic drums specially modified as rooster habitat
East Tennessee fighting cocks are exported to as far away as the Philippines.
Cock fighting is illegal in Tennessee but probably still occurs. Cocke county is natorious for the sport.
***The shelters are blue plastic drums ****
Same here. a dead giveaway to a cock farm. I drove by a small rural house not long ago, and noticed some scrawny cocks running in the road. all their colors and sizes showed them to be fighting cocks. Blue drums in the back yard.
In the Philippines traditionally one makes them into tinola, chicken stew.
I have a picture of my great grandpa and his sons, my grandpa and uncles, who had somehow acquired a highly regarded fighting cock in a business deal, a debt settlement, and put the bird to the cockpit. The picture was all of them around a pot of tinola.
When I was in PR, about 1970, there were chickens all over the roads. Heaven help you if you ran over one - it was always their “prize fighting cock” and worth about $200.
Hunting and using dogs to hunt will fall in time because masses of people do not believe in private property.
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