What is your NHR Roo like?
He starts crowing about one hour before the sky begins to lighten; so around 4AM right now and as late as 6/7AM during early spring. We haven't had him through a winter yet, so we'll see.
He's loud. His voice is beautiful and fairly deep, but he backs it up with a powerful set of pipes. When I did a little noise survey, he was peaking at 64dbA at 100 feet. That's still way less than our neighbor's dogs, but people are definitely more forgiving and quicker to ignore dogs over roosters. However, you just get used to it. Ours doesn't even wake us up in the mornings and the coop and run is right under our front porch.
However, all roos are different. Some crow more and some less, some dawn-dusk and some 24/7 (even ours will crow a few times in the middle of the night if disturbed...or during full moon). You just don't know until you have them.
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