(1) You can legally own a gamecock in 18 states and visit a cockfight as a spectator in nine.

(2) His exaggerated body movements and words remind me of a gamecock .

(3) Yet in the most furious bouts against the local greenfinches, with feathers ruffled and wings dropped like a gamecock , he continues singing his challenges.

(4) In the novel's second part, when she is sold off to a North Carolina slaver, she is able to pass on her father's narrative to her son, an accomplished gamecock trainer, who does the same with his children.

(5) In other words, the gamecock sparring match is conducted in rounds with rest periods between rounds.

(6) ALMOST 100 birds were on show when Holcombe Old English Game Fowl Club held its annual gamecock show in Ramsbottom.

(7) The main gamefowl breeds are of the Aseel and Malay-type.

(8) One review of surviving 1828 materials claims that u2018his matrimonial affairs, his profanity, his gamecocks and race horses, his duels and brawls, were the subject of merciless campaign propagandau2019.

(9) Poultry chicks and gamecocks entering Hawaii in this way skipped the regular agricultural inspections.

(10) These are considered separate breeds and fit in a larger category of gamefowl that include: Yamato Gunkei and Chibi.

(11) Birds bred from proven winners command higher prices, but most gamefowl sell for between $150 and $200 apiece.

(12) A ferocious blood-sport, probably introduced by the Romans, in which intensively trained gamecocks with metal or bone spurs slipped over their natural ones were set to fight, usually to the death, on a stage in a circular pit.