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RIGBY — A Rigby man has been charged after deputies reportedly discovered he had been neglecting roosters, hens, and chicks and making them fight each other for money. Carlos Negrete is charged with misdemeanors for cruelty to animals, exhibition of cockfighting, and impounding animals without food or water. According to Idaho Code, animal cruelty is a misdemeanor until you’ve been charged with it three times – then you can be charged with a felony. Court documents say that on Sept. 4, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received a request to check on the welfare of poultry at a home on the …