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Mimosa,I'll bet your forty acres is a cool place I'd love to see it love to sample some of that honey.I've worked in a slaughter house I've seen industrial chicken,pig farms and slughter houses.I love animals all animals.I've also eaten/killed a lot of animals.I believe any industrially raised animal would trade his fate for one of your show birds fate.I don't condone cock fighting.I sure as hell respect your right to raise those birds and sell them.I have great respect for self sufficiency and commend your efforts.Question for Mimosa or any other punawebber Some chickens are raised for fly tying their necks/hackles sell for pretty big money(see orvis)is their any one raising chickens for this purpose?
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I'm glad you're doing this on 40 acres so as to not torture your neighbors.
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My understanding is that the recently passed farm bill makes fighting animals a federal crime. Although raising them is still legal. So now the Feds have another reason to continue those helicopter flights!
Jerry
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I saw an old "Hawaii 5-0" show and it portrayed fighting "cocks" as something very special and the birds were very highly prized. This wasn't the main theme of the show, just something I noticed. This show aired in 1968 I think.
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Oh man! do you still have a copy of said map? I'd be interested in seeing it
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Originally posted by EightFingers
Spent some quality time looking at HPP from above and mapped the locations of the rooster farms. They ranged from large operations(30+ units) to small time "hobbiests" with six or seven units.
I counted 23 operations with most (19) west of and including 20th street. I made a spreadsheet of the locations by number street and cross street and lot position. I was suprised there are so many rooster farms in HPP!
So, Sputnut, buy your house east of 20th street! HTH
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Thronester,
I remember doing that, I'll see if I can find it on my computer...
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Based on personal experience with several as neighbors over the years here a lot of the rooster farms are on rental properties, so I would guess the map would be a moving target.
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Originally posted by jerry
My understanding is that the recently passed farm bill makes fighting animals a federal crime. Although raising them is still legal. So now the Feds have another reason to continue those helicopter flights!
Jerry
The ironic thing is that all the local airlines refuse to transport adult roosters because they don't want their hands dirtied with blood sport money. The exception being when the roosters are mailed through the USPS. Odd that the only way to transport your fighting cocks is to use a quasi federal agency to do it.
I was at a local feed store and a guy was getting a pallet of game bird food loaded onto his pickup truck and I remarked to the employee about what a large purchase of food that was. He replied that the guy had 500 birds and that he gets a minimum of $500 each for them, "and if they are proven, the sky's the limit". So, a quarter million dollars worth of birds sitting on his property at any one time, selling and raising them on a continuous basis, and the USPS is his distributor.
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Good point terracore. Wonder is the feds are oblivious to this or if changes are in the works.
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Wonder is the feds are oblivious to this or if changes are in the works
Both and neither: the powers that be will simply go along with whichever way makes the most money/power for the right people, just like they do with marijuana and other "low-level" forms of civil disobedience.
Consider the alternative: ESPN and Nature Channel partner up to bring you NESPN, with 24-hour coverage of bull runs, cock fighting, lion hunting (with rocks and sticks, no guns or bows allowed). Champion fighters would become "spokescock" for the new line of EXTREME Poultry Feed from Purina, in full color on the front of the sack, just like an old-fashioned box of Wheaties. Logos, hats, t-shirts, team colors...
