![]() He was breeding his fowl the way everyone does today, except he was thirty or forty years ahead of his time. The reason my birds were an overnight success is that in 1970 I secured two bloodlines from a famous breeder in Killeen, Joe Goode. 
I began getting invitations to countries where harvesting is widely accepted, like the Philippines, Guam, Saipan, and, of course, Mexico. Soon the birds became my sole source of income. ![]() I raised as many birds as the market could stand: Sometimes it was 600 or 700 a year other times it was 1,500. In the late eighties, when the economy was bad, I started a business, Bobby Jones Hatchery. That, along with construction, was how I made my living. But by 1977, I was traveling with my birds to states where game fowl harvesting was legal. ![]() ![]() ![]() I began raising birds when I was twelve years old. Cockfighting, or “harvesting,” as it is often called by breeders, has been illegal in Texas since 1907, but there is no law against raising birds or attending fights. He sells his birds to clients around the world, and in April he testified in Austin before Senate and House committees to oppose a bill that would outlaw the raising of game birds in Texas. Jones, who lives in Gatesville, has been raising game chickens for almost fifty years. ![]()
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