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A pair of cockfighters were hauled before the courts after they posted videos bragging about the barbaric blood sport on Facebook.
Bill Ripley, 46, and Moses Brinkley, 61, from Bean, Kent, posted graphic videos of the birds pulling out mouthfuls of feathers and pecking each other in the eyes with their sharp beaks.
The men, built a makeshift pit next to a caravan for the birds to fight, and RSPCA officers found 242 cockerels at their traveller site.