How Early Do YOUR Boys Get Up?

[SunChick]

when our lights go on 6am!

 

[AK-Bird-brain]

Ours too. whenever the light in the kitchen goes on, 4:30 6:30 doesnt matter he see's the light and starts telling the girls to get up.

Edited cause I cant spell

 

[rosyposyosy]

I don't have a cockerel anymore, but when I did, he crowed from about 5:30 am and ALL throughout the day. It was a cute crow too, he sounded just like a big rooster! he was a little cochin banty

 

[pattycake]

When I go out to get the paper at 6:30, I don't hear any crowing. Then when I take the kids to the bus stop at 7:15, he's crowing up a storm.

Luckily he's still in his henhouse, so he's not too loud.

Usually he quits when the sun is full up, though once in while he'll crow just for the heck of it. He got mad at me picking his hens up yesterday (I was feeling for eggs! Nope!) and so he crowed at 5 pm.

 

[bantymum]

My roo crowed as soon as I let him out of his night cage which was covered until 8am, sadly it had to be this way because I am in town and not on a farm, otherwise I wouldnt care what time he crowed.
He also crowed in the middle of the night if loud drunk people walked past my house. he was a watchdog too!
He went to a new farm home as he started attacking.
However one of my chicks will be a roo for sure and im looking forward to hearing it again!

 

[MissPrissy]

They start about 5am here.

 

[mullers3acers]

When we had roosters, they would start crowing about a half an hour before the sun would be up, or as soon as they saw some daylight.

 

[lizardz]

I know mine are crowing when I get up at 5:00, so they may even start a little earlier, and they crow throughout the day. Thankfully, I don't have any close neighbors, so it doesn't bother anyone! I sure do like waking up to a rooster's crow.

 

[DuckLady]

We forgot and left a light shining in the coop the last 2 nights. We position it to shine in there, as I get home after dark and I go out and check on everyone and gather eggs. (Well lately I have been going out to NOT gather eggs, but molting will do that

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So about 3 am the last 2 mornings, we hear Speckle-Roo's sleepy "er errrr". It is so cute, you can almost see him rubbing sleep out of his eyes. Then it is quiet, as if the hen next to him poked him to stop snoring.

 

[GoodEgg]

My little guys usually start just after 4am, LOL.

Everyone warned me that I'd be complaining about their crowing back when I was posting that everyone had heard a rusty little crow except for me.

Really, though, they are just little guys and their crows are not very loud. If I'm asleep it doesn't bother me if the windows are closed. The ducks are a lot more of a problem (they stay awake pretty much all night it seems, and although I moved their coop a bit it's still not far from the bedroom window.).

I got worried when a neighbor mentioned that he heard the crowing, but he said it was only because he goes outside in the wee hours to smoke cigarettes. He doesn't hear them inside his house, so far so good.

They are all banty cockerels, and been crowing for maybe a couple of months now. I don't think they are going to get any louder, or any better at it, LOL, if they haven't yet?

Enjoying my lil roos!

trish