Today among the most populous animals on earth, the domestic chicken followed the earliest human civilizations across the globe not for food--initially--but cockfighting. Bloodline explores the rich history between human civilization and chickens, especially gamefowl and the sport of cockfighting. Host Jesse Sidlauskas, who once fought and riased gamecocks with three generations of his family, explores the narratives of the ancient past-time through hard-hitting historical research and interviews with cockfighters and gamefowl breeders.
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episode 5: Kings of the Cockpit
We’ll be exploring the lives of some of the all-time-great cockers of England and the world up to that time, including Edward Smith-Stanley, The 12th Earl of Derby and some of his contemporaries, including William Tregonwell Frampton, William "Bill" Gilliver, Joe Gilliver and Paul Potter.