Editing Chicken (section)

=== Cockfighting ===

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[[File:COCK FIGHT.JPG|thumb|A [[cockfight]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], India, 2011 ]]

A [[cockfight]] is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two cocks. Cockfighting is outlawed in many countries as involving [[cruelty to animals]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Raymond Hernandez |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/11/nyregion/blood-sport-gets-blood-fans-cockfighting-don-t-understand-its-outlaw-status.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=A Blood Sport Gets in the Blood; Fans of Cockfighting Don't Understand Its Outlaw Status |work=The New York Times |location=New York City Metropolitan Area |date=April 11, 1995 |access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref> The activity seems to have been practised in the [[Indus Valley civilisation]] from 2500 to 2100 BC.<ref name="Crawford 1990">{{cite book |last=Crawford |first=R. D. |title=''Poultry Breeding and Genetics'' |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |year=1990 |pages=10–11 |isbn=978-0444885579 |ol=2207173M |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2207173M/Poultry_breeding_and_genetics |access-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418123608/https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2207173M/Poultry_breeding_and_genetics |url-status=live }}</ref> In the process of domestication, chickens were apparently kept initially for cockfighting, and only later used for food.<ref name="Lawler Adler 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Lawler |first1=Andrew |last2=Adler |first2=Jerry |title=How the Chicken Conquered the World |journal=Smithsonian Magazine |issue=June 2012 |date=June 2012 |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031040210/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/ |url-status=live }}</ref>