why is rooster crowing in the dark?

[NorthwoodsChick]

Mine crow for an hour and a half before first light, it is normal. They also sometimes crow at midnight and 3 am,.

I don't have a roo to crow at 3am, but thank goodness I have a neurotic dog that stares at the bedroom corners and growl-barks at imaginary shadows. Yep, needless to say I don't sleep well.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

My boys crow anytime during the night, a light or predator possibly. Nomal I think.
A friend puts her rooster in a dark coop box thing within the main coop - the rooster knows that's where he sleeps and takes himself there at sunset. It's completely dark and he doesn't crow till they allow him out in the morning. That's how they solved the night time crowing problem disturbing the neighbours.

 

[Banana01]

My boys crow anytime during the night, a light or predator possibly. Nomal I think.
A friend puts her rooster in a dark coop box thing within the main coop - the rooster knows that's where he sleeps and takes himself there at sunset. It's completely dark and he doesn't crow till they allow him out in the morning. That's how they solved the night time crowing problem disturbing the neighbours.

My blind rooster crows at random times too, and sometimes sets off neighbors roosters. It can set off all the roosters in the village where i live in the middle of the night. He crows because hes happy.

 

[raingarden]

My wife can't tolerate a lot of crowing. I usually sleep right through it. The peafowl are another matter though. When they let out a scream in the middle of the night it will wake the dead.

I used to know a guy who would walk outside his house late at night and do his peafowl call immitation. Then peafowl from blocks away at the crazy bird lady's house would respond. I doubt the lady ever knew who was making all the trouble.

 

[3KillerBs]

I am always amazed that people who live in communities where there is constant noise -- from vehicles, children, too-loud adults, emergency sirens and dogs -- find the simple crowing of a rooster too much to bear.

Indeed.

I have actually moved far enough out in the country that I can't hear a train whistle no matter how the wind blows and it's WEIRD.

There's no comparison between a rooster and a freight train.

There could be some light from the neighbours (maybe motion activated?) That's waking him

When I had my in-town flock we were on a corner lot and Marion would be woken by headlights on the roads and crow in response.

 

[GregnLety]

Indeed.

I have actually moved far enough out in the country that I can't hear a train whistle no matter how the wind blows and it's WEIRD.

There's no comparison between a rooster and a freight train.



When I had my in-town flock we were on a corner lot and Marion would be woken by headlights on the roads and crow in response.

I live a quarter mile from a railroad crossing. I have gotten use to the trains but I think the trains set off my roosters at random times in the night.

 

[3KillerBs]

I live a quarter mile from a railroad crossing. I have gotten use to the trains but I think the trains set off my roosters at random times in the night.

I once lived in a cheap attic apartment 100 yards from a busy crossing on an 8-track line (a mill town downriver of Pittsburgh), and learned to sleep through the whistles and let the rumble rock me to sleep.

I also grew up under Greater Pittsburgh International Airport's old approach route (they were gear-down over my house). When I went to college I couldn't sleep at first because while I had train whistles I didn't have any airplanes.

I've also lived across the street from a steel mill's main entrance where we could hear the shift whistles.

I really DO NOT comprehend people complaining about roosters, chainsaws, cattle, tractors, and other features of rural life.

The artillery at Ft. Bragg doesn't seem to bother my cockerel so far. Or maybe I just don't notice.

 

[GregnLety]

I once lived in a cheap attic apartment 100 yards from a busy crossing on an 8-track line (a mill town downriver of Pittsburgh), and learned to sleep through the whistles and let the rumble rock me to sleep.

I also grew up under Greater Pittsburgh International Airport's old approach route (they were gear-down over my house). When I went to college I couldn't sleep at first because while I had train whistles I didn't have any airplanes.

I've also lived across the street from a steel mill's main entrance where we could hear the shift whistles.

I really DO NOT comprehend people complaining about roosters, chainsaws, cattle, tractors, and other features of rural life.

The artillery at Ft. Bragg doesn't seem to bother my cockerel so far. Or maybe I just don't notice.

I like the sound of trains, it is maybe the nostalgia. I enjoy hearing my roosters crow and my ducks quacking. We have 30 some chickens, 3 ducks and 11 dogs. I'd much rather hear my animals than the griping neighbors from where I use to live (Houston). I miss the sound cannon fire though. I use to be a gunner on a 155mm howitzer.

 

[3KillerBs]

I like the sound of trains, it is maybe the nostalgia. I enjoy hearing my roosters crow and my ducks quacking. We have 30 some chickens, 3 ducks and 11 dogs. I'd much rather hear my animals than the griping neighbors from where I use to live (Houston). I miss the sound cannon fire though. I use to be a gunner on a 155mm howitzer.

I have always figured that cattle are better neighbors than many people.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I have always figured that cattle are better neighbors than many people.

Exactly!