Chicken Farmer Danny Gandy with pet rooster.
U.S. Highway 41, Cook County, Georgia
"This is not a fighting cock."
(Too busy to write, so I'm reposting a blog from December, 2020)
Traveling north through Cook County on U.S. Highway 41
after leaving his sick Honda with a mechanic friend near Hahira, Michael
Largent and I noticed a small house beside the road with a yard full of the
distinctive shelters often used by those who raise fighting cocks. Each shelter
had a large and colorful rooster attached to it by a tether.
Danny Gandy's
chicken farm. Although some of the
roosters appear to be free, they are actually tethered.
I thought it was a sight worth photographing, so we pulled off the road. In a few moments we were met by the affable Danny Gandy, owner of the establishment, who explained to us that these were not fighting chickens. It is not illegal to raise gamecocks in Georgia, but fighting them is. Nonetheless, the "sport" continues, with the law often looking the other way.
Danny was very cooperative, allowing me to make as many photographs as I wished and proudly posing with his roosters, all the while assuring me that "these are not fighting chickens."
Despite all his assurances I somehow doubted if any of those roosters would ever see the inside of a WalMart freezer. But I wrote down Danny's address and sent him a print of the picture at the top of this post.
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