A couple of days ago I heard a rooster crow in broad daylight. My heart leaped up as if I'd seen a rainbow in the sky. What's the big deal, you ask? Hearing roosters crowing was a great part of my ...

The most iconic way that this was done was with the crow of a rooster. Farmers are still very familiar with this loud ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo’ every morning, and even people who live in cities know ...

On Wednesday, 11 roosters gathered in the Poultry Building to make themselves heard at the qualify round “Rooster Crowing Contest” at the Minnesota State Fair. The rules are simple.

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Roosters tend to be more colourful than their hens Credit: Alamy. If there are multiple roosters in a flock they will all crow in the pecking order and any who crow out of turn is swiftly put back ...

As Candlemas Day (Feb. 2) nears, daylight increases, and winter approaches its halfway mark, I reach for my poultry catalogs to research exotic bre ...

Kept under this steady simulated twilight, the roosters initially maintained their schedule of crowing just before dawn each morning, suggesting that the behavior is linked to a Circadian rhythm ...