Do you think gamecocks are trained to fight or is it just natural instincts?

Question

Most of you are way off. It is natural instincts. They don't need any drugs or spurs to fight other roosters to the death. There is no hen present at a cockfight. I have seen a rooster break out of his pen and kill 3 other rooster in one night with no spurs on and he died him self. He had the whole world to roam around, but he chose to stay and fight to his death.

Most of you are way off. It is natural instincts. They don't need any drugs or spurs to fight other roosters to the death. There is no hen present at a cockfight. I have seen a rooster break out of his pen and kill 3 other rooster in one night with no spurs on and he died him self. He had the whole world to roam around, but he chose to stay and fight to his death.

Answer 1

I think it is natural. Do gamecocks cross swords often?

Coach

Answer 2

It is natural instict. However the birds are selectively bred so that the most defensive and aggressive birds are kept for fighting, as this aggression gives them a competitive edge. It is just the same as natural selection in nature; desired traits live on while undesirable traits are killed off. The difference is that in the case of fighting birds, humans are deciding the traits and selecting which birds will be kept, not nature. But the principles are the same. The ones that are used to fight are those that have a natural tendency to be highly aggressive, so thus it's more a matter of keeping them healthy and under the right conditions than it is training.

Answer 3

i am a little late reading your question and your adittional details but i fully agree with you it IS only natural instinct for a rooster of ANY kind to fight with another rooster,i have seen heavy meat bird type roosters fight to the death as well as the little game cocks but usually a large rooster will give up eventually not that i am into fighting roosters but i have been raising chickens my whole life and have wittnessed it first hand,but i will say this, game birds do have more of a tendancy to fight than the other breeds,this may be because the game cocks are the closest to the wild jungle fowl,i am not sure but they are definately ready willing and able to fight another rooster,animal or a human over territory or just out of spite,that is why these guys are used for the cock fights,they are feisty little guys who move very quickly and don't give up that is why one or both usually ends up dead in a staged cock fight

Answer 4

for you people who think game roosters can get along fine without human intervention HA HA! i have lost thousands of dollars in roosters because one would get off tie cord and would go down the line killing other roosters until he could not fight anymore-now-my intervention was controling their contact so there was no bloodshed---and i never saw anything that cruel or greusome at a controled cockfight-there humans intervene and stop it before death most times. show a game rooster a mirror and he will try to kill his own reflection. i don't have game chickens anymore but all this is making me want to start again!

Answer 5

bit of both. I have been attacked by roosters before, and this was just in a regular pen. That instinct is just amplified by people always kicking them and making them agressive, or by keeping a lot of roosters in a small area- they will constantly fight and only the strongest and most agressive will survive.

Answer 6

Gamecocks have the natural instinct to fight and are encourage to fight through selective breeding and hen taunting.

Most male birds have the potential to fight with other male birds but once they have established their point the fight ends and usually there are only minor injuries.

Humans have encouraged these birds to to fight to the death, also altering their natural anatomy by adding razors, filing beeks and claws. Physical abuse, steriods, hormones and hen taunting also play a key role in this barberic so called sport. They continually stimulate the bird to bring out its aggression so it becomes the everyday way of life for these birds.

Its a horrible so called sport and totally inhumane. I am aware of many game cocks confiscated in time to be rehabilitated to roam free and live at large in a farm setting peacefully with other cocks and hens.

Answer 7

male birds will fight, just not to the extent that humans force them to. The fighting sport of cock fighting the birds are often injected with steroids to make them bigger and more aggressive and are fitted with razors on their spurs to make the fight more vicious and ultimately deadly.
I agree with the person who asked the question, but I don't think it should be encouraged for sport.

Answer 8

both plus they are forced to fight.. in a normal situation roosters can get along fine.. there is enough room for them.. its when you pit 2 against each other with a hen pressent that they fight...
also its not natural for them to have tiny knives attached to their feet like in cockfights

saddly in some nations they also do the same with horses (putting 2 stallions in a ring with a mare so the stallions fight...

and dogs as we all know....

Answer 9

i have about 8 rosters on my yard and alot of hens they all fight each other but not to the death.but i can go get a strnag roster and put him on the ground and they will fight to the death.weird but its true .they will fight its in there blood but you can drpo them and make them fight and get them ready for fights.then you got the game chicken that doesnt have any game in it will turn and run at the sigh of another cock.so yeah its up to the owner to fight them or not .they usealy dont kill each other on the yeard unless the have been to a cock fight .I DONT FIGHT AND DONT SUPPORT THE CAUSE.

Answer 10

It starts with natural instinct definitely, but the owners will spur them on and do things to make them more aggressive.

Answer 11

It is natural instinct.. Some are given metal spurs to help them out.