Another problem... can roosters crow at the wrong time?

[josephdad]

For the past few weeks, my rooster will crow in the middle of the night instead of at dawn. Is that normal? Or does my rooster just have something against me?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

To answer the question, there isn't a "wrong time."

I have a few males that start going at around 2 every morning. They crow normally when they sense a change in the environment, such as a hen getting up and moving, an animal outside wandering around, or unfamiliar noises. I have one that crows in response to a neighbor shooting

 

[NatJ]

For the past few weeks, my rooster will crow in the middle of the night instead of at dawn. Is that normal? Or does my rooster just have something against me?

It's pretty normal.

Roosters usually crow at dawn, and when they hear another rooster crowing, and whenever they feel like it during the day, and if something wakes them up during the night.

Lights or sounds can wake the rooster up at night: car headlights, street lights, light shining out of a house window, sounds of a dog barking or a car driving or a person going out of their house or another rooster crowing, and so forth.

 

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[JacinLarkwell]

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Thank you

 

[CHlCKEN]

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Very sorry things got out of hand so quickly. I post was meant to be constructive but I know I could have been more careful. Thank you for cleaning up

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

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[CHlCKEN]

For the past few weeks, my rooster will crow in the middle of the night instead of at dawn. Is that normal? Or does my rooster just have something against me?

I’m sure you are confused by this because of the popular misconception that roosters only crow at dawn, usually this behavior is displayed in a cartoon or children’s book of some sort. In reality, though, a rooster crows any hour of the day he wishes, and the vocalization is made mainly by a dominant rooster.

 

[SegiDream]

I have 3 that crow at 4am in the morning. I didn't understand what was setting them off at that hour until I had to leave the house super early one morning and could hear someone else's roosters crowing from a long distance away. My guess is that someone gets up for work at that hour or returns home which starts their roosters and then my roosters can clearly hear theirs because it is so quiet at that hour and so on. My DH said the same thing about why they're crowing at the wrong time of day. I'm a light sleeper but it doesn't disturb me at all, he's a heavy sleeper but the crowing wakes him up. I guess everyone is different