Happybunny Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 My cockerel has just started crowing at 11.15pm! What on earth is he thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 You will be popular with the neighbours! Has something disturbed him? Better get out with the torch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Yikes! I love cockerels though, so it wouldnt bother me. Do you have neighbours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was surprised once recently when having lunch in a country pub to hear a cockerel at 1 o'clock in the afternoon... I thought they only crowed at dawn?? Is there such a thing as a jetlagged cockerel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 They crow at any time of day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bantam of the Opera Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 yeah one of mine started crowing in the evening the other day, very surprising. ive got two and they enjoy crowing any time of day. men Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Loo Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 When mine was younger he crowed at any time day or night. I was a bit worried what the neighbours thought when I heard him "going for it" at 2 am but thankfully as he has matured (he is now about a year old) the odd timed crowing has stopped. At the moment he starts at a very respectable 7 am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellekatz Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 The Park I live opposite from has a pets corner and it is full of chickens and cockrels etc - they crow all day long and I can hear them in my back garden from about 600m away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 when we went to collect Bea on Sunday, Adele's cockerel started crowing when we arrived, it was about 1pm. They must do it as a warning so maybe he was disturbed by something? Perhaps something has started visitng your garden at that time of night; badger, fox, stoat, cat etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happybunny Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 He quite often crows during the day but I've never known him to crow after they've gone in to roost before. It must drive the poor hens mad - thank heavens men don't crow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Our neighbours (at the bottom of the garden) have a cockerel and he crows at pretty much any time of the day. Although I think he is a bit young yet because it is more of a strangled squeak than a cock a doodle doo And men don't need to crow - they snore instead. That would frighten off any predator! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...