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Posted on 6/18/25 at 4:16 pm to Old Character
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There were pits literally everywhere
I don't know how I never heard of them. I grew up way in the country in Bienville Parish in the 70s. I believe you, I just didn't think there was anything way out in the country that I missed.
This post was edited on 6/18/25 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 6/18/25 at 4:19 pm to Bobby Profile
We call them chicken fights here. Cock fight is just gay as hell. Went to a lot
of them back in my younger days. The strychnine poison that others have posted is the real deal, that along with pure black pepper. Anyway to try to get an edge.
Gaffe fighting here, sometimes a blade match but it was a special occasion and heavily promoted. Drew a lot of out of country fighters along with huge--I'm talking huge money.
The stories of local jackboots being payed off is so. The County Sheriff ran the pit barn and still does. Two big pits left in this County and the fights go on.
In the pictures on the first page, you see the main pit along with what is know as the drag pits on either side of the main. If match is moved to drag pit is determined by time count and how match fighting the roosters are doing. Drag pit is literally dead roosters that don't know they are dead yet..
Not all fighting roosters will fight. Sometimes on the first handle a rooster will run or try to flight out of pit. The owner of the runner loses the match right then and there, Here a runner gets his neck rung right in the pit for all to see.
Have saw handlers get a gaffe in a femoral artery in the pit and tie off with hay twine to finish the match.
Some are questioning the humaneness of chicken fighting. Well, it ain't.
It is how we were brought up and part of the culture.
of them back in my younger days. The strychnine poison that others have posted is the real deal, that along with pure black pepper. Anyway to try to get an edge.
Gaffe fighting here, sometimes a blade match but it was a special occasion and heavily promoted. Drew a lot of out of country fighters along with huge--I'm talking huge money.
The stories of local jackboots being payed off is so. The County Sheriff ran the pit barn and still does. Two big pits left in this County and the fights go on.
In the pictures on the first page, you see the main pit along with what is know as the drag pits on either side of the main. If match is moved to drag pit is determined by time count and how match fighting the roosters are doing. Drag pit is literally dead roosters that don't know they are dead yet..
Not all fighting roosters will fight. Sometimes on the first handle a rooster will run or try to flight out of pit. The owner of the runner loses the match right then and there, Here a runner gets his neck rung right in the pit for all to see.
Have saw handlers get a gaffe in a femoral artery in the pit and tie off with hay twine to finish the match.
Some are questioning the humaneness of chicken fighting. Well, it ain't.
It is how we were brought up and part of the culture.
Posted on 6/18/25 at 5:29 pm to Jim Ed Love
Not only does a rooster that runs get killed, any others related to him will be. Those bloodlines will be terminated.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 1:51 pm to Jim Ed Love
You need help
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:06 pm to Jim Ed Love
quote:
Some are questioning the humaneness of chicken fighting. Well, it ain't.
It is how we were brought up and part of the culture.
My grandfather and my uncle started a pit in the early 1970s on the west side of Atlanta. They did not raise roosters, they had a pit they built out in the barn behind the house. I ran the concessions for them. It got to be a pretty big deal. They were both wanna be gangsters, ran a floating card game for years on the west side of Atlanta. I worked those also. They were definitely paying off the local police...I have seen it first hand. They talked about it openly. Their cock fighting pit only lasted about 6 months until they got the word that they were welcome to continue their cigarette machine business, juke boxes, card games and bonded whiskey but if they continued to run that pit they were not going to be physically able to do any of it. They shut it down. Weren't happy about it but at the time cock fighting was a big deal in Georgia and as such controlled by a few people far better connected than we were.
I say that to say this. It is a disgusting activity in my opinion. I have been around it some, I also ran the concessions at another pit in Bartow County Georgia that was owned by a man who was the mayor of the small town it was in. It is horrible, again in my opinion. That said my opinion means absolutely nothing. There was and still is a market for it. Adults who live in a free country ought to be able to just about anything they damn well please and if I don't like it I can ignore it and as long as they ain't harming anyone whats the issue? It is DEEPLY rooted in southern culture, in Hispanic culture and in most African and Asian cultures. It is no less disgusting anywhere it is practiced but there is a lot of shite I find disgusting that is none of my damned business....if 2 adults want to lash razor blades to 2 chickens and sling them in a pit together and I don't want to see it I can stay the frick away and mind my business. It ought not be illegal. Dog fighting, coon on a log, none of it ought to be illegal and it ought not have much if any restriction on it. If someonoe don't want to take part don't...why we allow the state to make these kinds of decisions to appease the sentimental feelings of people who have no business worrying about shite that does not impact them is beyond me.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:14 pm to djmed
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Federal agents led an investigation into a cockfighting operation in Blount County. June 14, 2025.Homeland Security Investigations
Why is Trump doing this?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:18 pm to TBoy
quote:He's a New York Democrat he finds you southern trailer trash white people disgusting and he enjoys manipulating y'all
Federal agents led an investigation into a cockfighting operation in Blount County. June 14, 2025.Homeland Security Investigations
Why is Trump doing this?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:20 pm to Jim Ed Love
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It is how we were brought up and part of the culture.
Its a pretty well kept open secret but raising game fowl is a pretty big business and pretty big deal in parts of the US. There are several magazines dedicated to it. There are thousands of people involved and they export a lot of birds overseas. Despite it being illegal to raise them to fight it is still perfectly legal to raise them and sell them. Again, just because some or most people find it reprehensible it ain't none of their damned business....don't go in the business if you do not like it.
Cockfighting is so deeply ingrained in the culture of the south the University of South Carolina's mascot is a game cock. I suspect folks are upset about that. frick 'em.
If one enjoys Grit Lit...and if you don't you ain't southern and you ain't cultured either one....there is a fantastic novel about cockfighting named. aptly enough, Cockfighter. Written by Charles Willeford, a pretty damn fine writer in my opinion. It was adapted into a screenplay and filmed entirely in Georgia before Atlanta became Hollywood. My son and watched a screening of the movie at the Plaze Theater in Atlanta a year or so ago....in one of the more respected art movie houses in the south they can still show Cockfighter and draw a crowd. Thats how deeply ingrained cockfighting is in southern culture.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:22 pm to TBoy
quote:
Why is Trump doing this?
Um, drugs and other hood rat shite
quote:
The investigation exposed more than just animal cruelty, federal officials said. The ring was tied to a network of organized criminal activity, including illegal gambling, drug trafficking, and violent offenses.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:29 pm to Shexter
It's odd to me that there are people here defending the practice because it's part of the culture as if we wouldn't understand mah heritage
yet this board will rant and rail against Pit Bulls when they're owned by African Americans and make fun of the cultcha.
Animal abuse is animal abuse, criminal behavior is criminal behavior pit bull fights or cock fights bring drugs , illegal weapons and undesirable elements into our community
yet this board will rant and rail against Pit Bulls when they're owned by African Americans and make fun of the cultcha.
Animal abuse is animal abuse, criminal behavior is criminal behavior pit bull fights or cock fights bring drugs , illegal weapons and undesirable elements into our community
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:41 pm to Jim Ed Love
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The owner of the runner loses the match right then and there, Here a runner gets his neck rung right in the pit for all to see.
They sure showed that chicken!
Posted on 6/19/25 at 4:55 pm to AwgustaDawg
English kings and American presidents owned and faught gamecocks.
What most people don't understand is, once the males mature, they will fight other males. You have to keep them separated. If you didn't, you would have bloody and battered roosters all over the place.
What most people don't understand is, once the males mature, they will fight other males. You have to keep them separated. If you didn't, you would have bloody and battered roosters all over the place.
This post was edited on 6/19/25 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 6/19/25 at 6:41 pm to FightinTigersDammit
If you notice in my posting I said "Back in my younger days I went to a lot of them"
I have not been to a chicken fight since I went off to get a college edukation.
When you are brought up a certain way and are ingrained in a culture, it is hard to break the bounds of said culture unless enlightened otherwise.
I could care less about others fighting chickens but I will never go to another chicken fight as long as I'm alive. It is just something that I don't care if I see anymore.
This area of the State is more Old South than the Deep South. Rooster fighting is old Southern culture and the old cultures are alive here. Most all know how to make redeye gravy and I would bet that most Bamie and Georgie boys don't even know what it is, let alone on how to make it. A lot of folks here still scald and scrape hogs on New Years Day---again, old culture that is alive and well here and in which is how we were brought up.
I have a few roosters running here on the place to keep the poison snakes in check. They will fight each other and if I don't catch them ever so often and keep the spurs cut with a pair of side cutters they will flat out kill one another, and these are tame chickens not game. Game roosters are a whole new level of being ill tempered.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 6:48 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:and slaves
English kings and American presidents owned and faught gamecocks.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 7:36 pm to djmed
Sounds aggie
Posted on 6/19/25 at 8:05 pm to Shorty_price
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Shorty_price
I was reading this entire thing to find the first del Cielo reference. I was going to be super let down if I got the first one in on page 8
Posted on 6/19/25 at 8:26 pm to FightinTigersDammit
quote:
What most people don't understand is, once the males mature, they will fight other males. You have to keep them separated. If you didn't, you would have bloody and battered roosters all over the place.
hmmm
While they establish a pecking order and can engage in fights, especially when establishing dominance or when new roosters areNo, roosters do not always fight. introduced, they don't necessarily fight to the death, and many roosters can live peacefully together, particularly if they are raised together or have enough space.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
Pecking Order:
Roosters, like other social animals, establish a pecking order. This involves displays of aggression and occasional fights to determine who is dominant.
Limited Aggression:
While fights can occur, they are often more about establishing dominance than a constant state of aggression.
Causes of Fights:
Fights are more likely to occur when new roosters are introduced to a flock, when there is competition for hens, or when a rooster feels its territory or position is threatened.
Not Always Violent:
Not all rooster fights are deadly or even seriously injurious. Many times, one rooster will back down or submit to the other.
Raised Together:
Roosters raised together from a young age are more likely to get along as adults.
Space Matters:
Overcrowding can exacerbate aggression among roosters, while providing ample space can help reduce conflict.
Training:
Aggressive roosters can sometimes be trained to be less aggressive according to The Featherbrain.
Human Interference:
In many cases, it's human intervention (like in a fighting ring) that leads to fights becoming deadly.
I mean it's Almost like you keep trying to prove you know nothing
Posted on 6/19/25 at 9:12 pm to OWLFAN86
Where in the charolais shite did you come up with this? Some docker wearing-patent leather shoe acehole?
I'm telling you in the here and now the roosters running on these two sections are always, dam always having a squab. This is real world. Not some ducky boy writing a thesis paper whose only exposure to a rooster was at the children's barnyard at State Fair.
It is the male hierarchy to want to fight and chickens ain't no different.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 9:17 pm to Jim Ed Love
1 AI
b
i wasnt responding to you
Honestly I thought that you provided a thoughtful explanation of your experience
You didn't try to excuse the fact that it was abusive to the animals
I think the fact that people tried to defend it as a sport when they're not the ones putting themselves at risk
it's not a sport if you're making somebody/something else do the activity
And I'm no liberal vegan pussy but animal abuse is animal abuse and just because historically it used to be something that was accepted does not mean it's accepted or should be accepted
And yes male animals will fight each other for dominance but not to a bloody pulp in the AI created post that I shared it even said that once one animal backs down the fight ends
b
i wasnt responding to you
Honestly I thought that you provided a thoughtful explanation of your experience
You didn't try to excuse the fact that it was abusive to the animals
I think the fact that people tried to defend it as a sport when they're not the ones putting themselves at risk
it's not a sport if you're making somebody/something else do the activity
And I'm no liberal vegan pussy but animal abuse is animal abuse and just because historically it used to be something that was accepted does not mean it's accepted or should be accepted
And yes male animals will fight each other for dominance but not to a bloody pulp in the AI created post that I shared it even said that once one animal backs down the fight ends
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