Section 167.431 - Participation in cockfighting(1) A person commits the crime of participation in cockfighting if the person knowingly: (a) Attends a cockfight or pays admission at any location to view or bet on a cockfight; or(b) Manufactures, buys, sells, barters, exchanges, possesses, advertises or otherwise offers to sell a gaff, slasher or other sharp implement designed for attachment to a fighting bird, or other equipment, with the intent that the gaff, slasher, implement or equipment be used in training or handling a fighting bird or for enhancing the fighting ability of a fighting bird.(2) Participation in cockfighting is a Class C felony.Amended by 2018 Ch. 19,§ 2, eff. 1/1/2019. 2003 c. 484, § 3; 2009 c. 796, § 1