By Kaja Whitehouse. July 27, pm Updated July 27, pm. The ex-president of the New York chapter of the United Gamefowl Breeders Association, which claims to raise the farm birds to compete as show birds, surrendered himself to the federal authorities Thursday on illegal cockfighting charges. Thomas Carrano, who runs a six-acre farm in upstate Ontario, was charged with one count of conspiracy to train and then sell his roosters to cockfighters, who use the birds in bloody death battles, usually for the pleasure of betting spectators.
Gabriela Martinez Gabriela Martinez. On a Sunday afternoon in a small city on on the western side of Puerto Rico, a crowd of more than a dozen men and one woman sat in a small amphitheater, holding wads of cash and sipping beer and mixed drinks from plastic cups. Two men reached into cloth sacks, pulled out two roosters and placed them into a glass pen. A wooden plank divided the pen down the middle, keeping the animals separated while allowing them to stare each other down. The spectators anticipated what was coming next. Suddenly, an assistant tugged on a pulley hooked to the ceiling and the glass pen lifted.
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Skip to content. Cockfighting is a blood sport in which two roosters specifically bred for aggression are placed beak to beak in a small ring and encouraged to fight to the death. Although illegal in all 50 states, cockfighting still persists across the nation in all sorts of communities and among all sorts of people.