Vegas Guy: Okies gaff cockfighting. By JOE BOB BRIGGS, The Vegas Guy. ... Kelly Barger, head of the Oklahoma Game Fowl Breeders, had always depended on the legislature to protect the sport, ...

Cockfighting is the illegal practice of forcing gamefowl roosters to fight one another, often to the death. Small knives, called gaffs, are tied to the bird’s spurs, and the flightless fowl are ...

The rooster was wearing “gaffs” which are blades on the bird’s legs. The man’s box truck was confiscated. Inside deputies found cockfighting cages, birds, and equipment.

They fight in octagonal or circular pits, with knives or gaffs strapped to their back ... in 2006 that bans the interstate transport of "gamefowl" for cockfighting, federal agents raided 28 ...

But a federal law that takes effect in May will deal a major blow to the cockfighting way of life. Regardless of what happens in the neighboring states where cockfighting still is allowed, their ...

Cockfighters seldom do interviews, but the Kentucky coordinator of the Gamefowl Defense Network agreed to meet investigative reporter John Boel of WAVE 3 News near Corinth. ... a vendor averaged ...

A video greeting aired at a Nov. 12 annual meeting for the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, ... He said vendors were selling jewelry made of gaffs used in cockfighting.

Transport boxes, electronic scales and gaffs, sharp blades that can be attached to roosters' legs during fights, ... The Humane World for Animals said it identified the birds as gamefowl, ...

The birds were identified by animal fighting experts as gamefowl, a term used to describe birds raised for the purposes of fighting and selectively bred to be aggressive with other birds.

Cockfighting gaffs found in Hunt County on Sunday, March 30, 2025. Davies said the sheriff's office gave them a call to retrieve the birds.