Rooster crowing all night

[LaFleche]

Just like the others already mentioned, it could be anything disturbing their nightly slumber. Cats, raccoons, snakes, mice, rats, weasels, owls around the coop, or headlights of cars, motion sensor lights, the list goes on.

Once our roosters would not stop during the night and we found raccoons on top of their coop. Ever since we took care of the rats and installed hot wire, only the headlights or motion detector lights set them off regularly.

The rooster's crow is a warning.

 

[Callender Girl]

My rooster doesn't crow all night -- just from about 3:30 a.m. on. I've often wondered if Sir Henry the Loud is part owl (kidding, of course. I've never seen him sleep during the day, and he sure isn't getting a full eight hours at night).

His night talk doesn't sound like any kind of a warning, so much like the trains that rumble through the countryside at night, I have become accustomed to the crowing and sleep right through it. The one time we did have a night predator, Sir Henry had nothing to say. Of course, it wasn't his coop that was under siege, so he may have thought silence was the better tactic.