Raising only roosters?

[tryingtohaveitall]

My family went on a brief getaway to a more rural part of Ohio this week. We drove by some different rundown places with a number of roosters in individual small runs with small shelters. Am I wrong in thinking they're raising roosters for fighting or do people raise them like this for 4H or something else? Just curious

 

[Stingrayg4]

That's how raising fighting roosters used to be done back when it was legal here in Oklahoma. Used to see places everywhere like that. Luckily the practice has been outlawed and those places have all disappeared. There's possibly another legitimate reason for raising roosters this way, but if so I don't know what that reason would be.

-S

 

[Orpygal]

That's how they raise them here too. A coworker of my DH used to be big into fighting roosters. He would load and drive them after dark to out of state fights.

 

[tryingtohaveitall]

That's sad.

I was hoping I was wrong.

 

[centrarchid]

I know something about both possibilities. Could be as you suspect or birds could be kept isolated to keep them in peak feather condition for show. Some folks isolate roosters even from hens to prevent feather damage caused by mating. Accurate breed determination would give better insight.

 

[cmom]

Maybe they are going to process them.

 

[mulewagon]

That's the way chicken fighters do it. Of course, if someone were opposed to slaughtering roosters, they'd have to do it that way too, unless they were rich enough to build lots of big pens.

I rotate my two roosters, keeping the off-duty one in a small circle of wire with a perch, so they won't overbreed the hens and kill each other.

 

[Cruezin]

I know something about both possibilities. Could be as you suspect or birds could be kept isolated to keep them in peak feather condition for show. Some folks isolate roosters even from hens to prevent feather damage caused by mating. Accurate breed determination would give better insight.

Could you tell just by looking then?