Animal rights group says they are concerned a proposed game fowl farm bill is intentionally deceptive and vague. Credit: Clément Bardot The state Legislature is set to consider a bill that a major ...

Ted ALJIBE/AFP/AFP Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines' bloody national obsession: cockfighting. They were murdered ...

Cockfighting, the practice of fighting roosters, is illegal in all 50 states and is a federal crime. There's a push in Oklahoma to lower the penalties for cockfighting there. The practice of ...

Jun 12, 2025 Jun 12, 2025 Updated Jul 20, 2025 0 An organization dedicated to fighting against animal cruelty released videos Wednesday that it says show two Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission officials ...

Spectators at the Nov. 22 El Gallo Show Worldwide in Cleveland, Texas, observe a rooster for sale. Tracey McManus / Staff It was late November, one week before the start of the illicit cockfighting ...

Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of spectators packed into small arenas in rural parts of the state to watch ...

Nearly 20 years after Oklahoma voters outlawed cockfighting, gamefowl breeders and other advocates believe they have the political momentum to push for decriminalizing it next year — a first step ...

Troy Thompson raises 2,000 to 3,000 roosters annually on his farm in Oklahoma. The birds are tethered to "teepees" when they're five to six months old. "If these aren't penned up, you know, they're ...

The long tradition of American game-fowl breeding has produced some of the world’s most coveted roosters. A rescued rooster named Twister at Vine Sanctuary in Vermont. The staff members there say he ...

KENDALL COUNTY, IL — A man and a woman from Na-Au-Say Township are facing a plethora of felonies in a cockfighting investigation that led to more than 400 gamefowl being recovered, according to the ...