LA passes law limiting roosters to 1 per household

The chickens have come home to roost for Los Angeles city dwellers who keep roosters.

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Ill. police take aggressive rooster into custody

A rooster played chicken in the wrong town. That's the word from the downstate community of Benton, where police took a rooster into custody after it allegedly confronted a woman and her child. Police Chief Mike O'Neill said the rooster has been bothering people lately, trying to keep them from getting where they want to go.

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Chicken crosses the road, then abandoned by thief

Why did the chicken cross the road? In the case of Jerry Sleater's 5-foot, 400-pound bright blue rooster, that's apparently as far as whoever was trying to steal it could get it.

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Measure Seeks to Muffle Calif. Roosters

Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.

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E-I-E-I Oh? Oh? Oh?

How many cock-a-doodle-doos will do? Voters in the city of Riverside decide next month how many roosters will be allowed in two rural areas.

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Man Accused of Biting Off Rooster's Head

A man accused of biting the head off his pet rooster was arrested Friday and faces up to a year in prison if convicted, an animal protection spokesman said.

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Thrills and Excitements of Ultimate Humane futuristic Sport

( Enjoy: Youtube broadcast yourself'. Search: RoosterElectronicBox. Humane cockfighting alternative 01-06.) With Audio, "Even the blinds know which bird is winning by just counting hit sounds" Roosters fight in the air, mid-air and wrestle in the ground.

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A cockerel with an eye for the ladies is looking for a new hen harem after his bird died of exhaustion due to his constant mating demands.

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Despite being "illegal in all 50 states" cockfighting still continues in the United States. This article and video focuses on cockfighting near Jeffersonville, Kentucky.

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Chinese health authorities are putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes and cooked up for a supposedly detoxing meal.

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Peki the three-legged cockerel is heading for the chop after his owner discovered his extra drumstick is stopping him getting his leg-over. Farmer Aleksandar Milojevic from Nis, southern Serbia, just can't get his chickens interested in the fowl-looking bird.

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How do best remember a sixty-years-dead famous fowl? If you're the tiny town of Fruita, Colorado, you host a festival in his honor. But Mike, he for whom the "Mike the Headless Chicken Festival" was named, was not any ordinary rooster. You guessed it: He was headless.

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A second chance leads one chicken from the throes of a slaughterhouse to a condominium of her own, complete with pedicures.

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At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America's dinner tables.

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This crowing cockerel has a secret - he was once an egg laying hen.

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There is nothing better than waking up to Peep crowing. He is so comical, no matter what I always get a good chuckle out of his antics. If all else fails he'll chase the kids around the yard a couple of times after they have irritated him.

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A Cautionary Allegory from the Internet on Politics

My younger brother just forwarded this joke in an email to me. I don't know who the original author was, but the cautionary tale involved needs to be brought forth for all to read.

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A man tired of being awakened by Gilman the rooster, took matters into his own hands. He tried killing it with a BB gun, then a .45 pistol. He cornered the bird a few feet from a bedroom window where a child was sleeping. POW!POW!POW!POW! The rooster lay dead.

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A bid to ban cockfighting in Louisiana failed in the House after a brief debate Thursday that focused more on legislative procedures than the merits of the issue.

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