Turkish Cockfighting Rules I

Turkish Cockfighting Rules I

Turkish to German Translation: Abduelkadir Temel (1997)
German to English Translation: Werner Lamkemeyer (1998)
Champions-League Istanbul; 1st Version, 1 st Pit (1993)
After a Photography from rules-poster at wall in cockpit Istanbul (Turkey), westpart of town.

§ 1) Regularly lasting time of fights are 2 hours. Every 15 min there must be taken a "water rest" (to cool the rooster). After that break the roosters in the pit have to set head to head 15 cm distanced. Roosters, who can“t see anything, have to set neck to neck.

§ 2) If a rooster wants to lay, get him up; if he lays 3 times after another, he looses. If he runs away 3 times without defence, he looses. If a rooster runs away 3 times or lays, he looses and is out of fight changes. If a judge means, a cock would run, the cock has to put in the center of the pit. If the rooster runs three times or lays three times, the fight is lost for him.

§ 3) If the owner of a rooster means, his cock could have cracks in his beak, he may take out his bird 1 time from the pit (not, if the rooster suppretes at their heads) and may take controlling. The controltime“s maximum is only 30 sec., he may bind the beak, if there is a crack. Binding time may take 5 min, the fight-time is automatically 5 min longer after that. In the 2 min lasting water pause it“s allowed to cut the birds swings, bind the beak as one believes or to take off the beak-binding. If there is a feather in the eye, one may remove it in the water pause, but it is not allowed to dress it. During fight it is not allowed to give the birds dope or spittle on the wounds. The nails and spur-hurts one may dress in 3 min, the fight will last 3 min longer. Only water and sugar is allowed to give the animals.

§ 4) Knifes and artificial spurs are not allowed and strictly forbidden!

§ 5) If a rooster runs away in the first minutes, the fight will be over! If a bird dies or will be hurt in the first 5 min, the fight will be lost, aside from the owner of the hurted cock will serious continue. If a bird moves entangled or wont find his enemy,he may be commanded every 30 sec.. It is not allowed, to place the roosters one upon another or pulled away from the other. If the commanding judge is supposing any kind of manipulation, he or a choosen (from him) trustful person may continue.

§ 6) Fights on gambling do not have equality (half lost); it is not allowed to pronounce equality before 1.5 hours fightingtime. After 1.5 hours it is allowed to break off the fight after deny between the two parties and the judge; the enemies will be equalized. If a rooster looses both eyes and is blind then or serious hurted, the fight may be broke off by the owner of the bird as equality (half lost) or if he wants, continued. (Regular time of fight max. 2 hours)

§ 7) The judge has the right, to break off fight by recognizable manipulation of a fighter (for example doping or secret plannings about the timing of fight). Without a plausible reason no judge may declare a rooster as a looser or as disqualificated.

§ 8) Persons, who are disturbing, drunken or want to manipulate the fight, may be kicked out. Each visitor of pit has to agree with this paragraph.

§ 9) The fights will be valued after a admissed point-system; each breeder or gambler has to agree with, contradiction isn“t possible. Roosters in full given winning time (2 hours) will get 100 points. In case of win before the full time, he will get one point for each minute earlier than the regular full 2 hours (120 min). Example to explain: win in 120 min = 100 points win in 110 min = 110 points win in 100 min = 120 points win in 70 min = 150 points win in 40 min = 180 points win in 30 min = 190 points

§ 10) In case, the looser weighs more than 100g as the winner, the winner gets 5 points extra. For each 100 g more he will get 5 points.

§ 11) The points will the counted together in case if a cock wins two times in an event.

§ 12) 100 points = 500 glasses of tea (turkish Ēay), after each 50 glasses tea plus, two points will be added to it. (in Turkey gambling is forbidden in money and valuables, so one may only gamble official about less valuables): 550 teas = 102 points Birds with similarity in points a draw for range will be done then.

P.S. from the author: Those fights will be evented by Shamo-Aseel strains or mostly turkish Aseel or Hint Horozu. That means, descendent from Hindustan = India. Those are optical the same: 25 - 45% Aseelportion

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