[Allegra]

There's a rooster around here somewhere.

People keep hearing it.

It crowed at midnight New Year's Eve.

Roosters are not supposed to crow at midnight.

[brytlea]

Every time I've lived in areas where there were chickens we would hear roosters crow at night.

Turns out the answer is simpler than you might think. First, roosters crow all the time. The connection with the sun coming up is a misconception. “They might, on occasion, crow right at dawn. But it’s just a coincidence,” Pete Alcorn (TransitionsAbroad.com) says. “Roosters crow whenever they feel like it: morning, noon and night, not to mention afternoon, evening and the parts of the day that don’t have names.”

Roosters crow because they hear other roosters crowing, to show that a certain place in the barnyard is their turf, to try and assert their authority over another rooster, or even to gloat when a hen cackles after laying an egg. Joe Faust, the Accidental Farmer (JoeCliffordFaust.com/chickens), says, “I think the general rule for this is that a rooster crows any time it wants to – or feels the need. For all I know, mine may crow on and off all night, but I just hear them in the morning.”

http://www.grit.com/Animals/Secret-of-the-Roosters-Crow.aspx

[listenhillary]

MP3 recording of a rooster crowing?

I’m not telling...

[george76]

Roosters are not supposed to crow at midnight.

8-)