Interesting Articles on Why a Rooster Crows

[Haunted55]

http://creationrevolution.com/2013/04/before-the-cock-crows-the-biological-clock-strikes/

 

[azygous]

We kind of all knew roosters crow at the start of day, but why do they crow at other times? The article didn't take the subject very far.

My rooster just cuts loose with a good, loud crow any old time he feels like it. And I think he crows because he just happens to feel like it, and he happens to enjoy the way he sounds.

 

[SSAcres]

Our cockerel does it about every 30 seconds it seems like. He discovered how to do it correctly and now he won't stop. haha

 

[Haunted55]

We kind of all knew roosters crow at the start of day, but why do they crow at other times? The article didn't take the subject very far.

My rooster just cuts loose with a good, loud crow any old time he feels like it. And I think he crows because he just happens to feel like it, and he happens to enjoy the way he sounds.

Did you click on all of the links in the article?

 

[appps]

I really think mine does it for attention half the time lol. We pull up in the driveway and off he goes. I open the blinds in the kitchen and off he goes etc etc.

He also crows when their food or water is empty.

 

[bellasooky]

Our nieghbours used to have a rooster who would crow everytime he saw a person,but he had anger issues.

 

[azygous]

Okay, I went back and read the other links.

So my take away is that roosters are kind of like 'Big Ben", going off regularly all day long, unless they want to crow for some other reason, such as they just want to.

Actually, roosters and hens have vocalizations that are far more fascinating and actually do mean something, and it's been proven that they have syntax (speak in sentences like we do) and we can learn what they're saying to us if we spend time listening to them.

I discovered quite by accident, while holding a day-old chick, that they are born knowing how to speak their language, when my cat walked into the room and the chick chirped out the exact same five-note phrase, with the accent on the third note, that the older chickens utter when seeing the cat.

I have found chickens to be the most fascinating creatures, as well as the most affectionate, in my seven decades of life.

 

[martha ellen]

My "henhouse" is a converted dog run right beside the house. Blue (rooster) crows at all times of the night if he feels someone just walking down the hall, turning on/off a light, coughing or clearing their throat. I count the crows in one of his sessions and he'll go on for 28 - 32 times. And he crows during the day, but it's just 2 - 3 crows per session. I think he's just lining up his harem, letting everyone know where he is at all times. Actually, he can crow all he wants.

I'm pretty proud of him. A month ago he helped fight off a Red Tailed Hawk that was determined to get in under a loafing shed to attack some of the hens. Two crows aided Blue to run the hawk off, too. I've seen the hawk spying on the flock since then and the crows usually take up residence in tree branches close by to keep an 'eagle eye' out on him.

My other mystery crowers are 2 mature Marans hens! I knew a blue splash hen crows but just now one of the blues started up. They're great egg layers so it's not that they're masculine. I think they just realize it works for Blue so they're trying it.