GHENT Authorities seized 350 high-priced fighting roosters Thursday during a raid of a farm in this Columbia County community where the birds were stored for the off-season from their weekly cockfights in New York City cellars.
It was believed to be one of the largest seizure of fighting cocks in the country, officials said.
Working on information gleaned from an undercover operation, a task force of armed officers for the New York City office of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, along with State Police and investigators from the attorney general's office, swooped down on the farm located on a dirt road off of Old Post Road. There they found 410 birds 350 fighting cocks, 40 hens used for mating and 20 chicks.
The rural farm in Ghent was used as a hideaway for the birds during their molting season when they cannot fight, according to John Foran, the ASPCA's executive vice president and chief …
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