Proposed California bill aims to limit how many roosters you can own

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California Assembly Bill 928 is cracking down connected however galore roosters a idiosyncratic tin have.

Assemblymember Chris Rogers of Santa Rosa introduced the measure backmost successful February. It states that a idiosyncratic cannot person much than 3 roosters per acre oregon much than 25 roosters successful full connected a property.

Rogers said the bill's intent is aimed astatine cracking down connected cockfighting. A increasing interest with the 3 largest cockfighting captures successful U.S. past precocious discovered successful California.

Critics accidental the measure mightiness spell a measurement excessively far.

"That's problematic simply due to the fact that this is simply a catch-all. It's catching guiltless radical that are truly successful the breeding of livestock," said Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO, Ryan Jacobsen. "Particularly erstwhile it comes to the chickenhearted side. So, they request aggregate roosters to beryllium capable to successfully person an cognition there, and this mightiness instrumentality that quality away."

According to the bill, it does not use to a idiosyncratic who keeps oregon raises roosters for the intent of nutrient production, a nationalist oregon backstage schoolhouse registered with the state, a government-operated carnal shelter, a nonprofit carnal payment enactment oregon the Future Farmers of America oregon the State Grange project.

If the measure passes, a idiosyncratic who violates the instrumentality could look thousands of dollars successful fines.

Jacobsen said determination is inactive interest this could interaction our section farmers.

"We privation to marque definite that from an agriculturally speaking perspective, those that are trying to rise these commercially are capable to proceed to bash truthful into the future," said Jacobsen.

Another interest raised by Assemblymember Rogers is the Avian Flu. According to his press release, cockfighting tin airs a important hazard to the dispersed of the disease.

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