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BOSSHOG

(41,809 posts) Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:08 PM Mar 21

Is a Roosters knowledge of Daybreak

The result of observation or instinct?

A question put before a debating club in a small township in Kansas 125 years ago.

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Is a Roosters knowledge of Daybreak (Original Post) BOSSHOG Mar 21 OP

How about a rooster's definition of daybreak? Our neighbor's backyard rooster would go off at 3 am. chia Mar 21 #1

Same here womanofthehills Mar 22 #5

Both.... anciano Mar 21 #2

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" Think. Again. Mar 21 #3

Devi usare un pollo JoseBalow Mar 22 #4

Roosters can also alert you to someone coming to your housr womanofthehills Mar 22 #6

chia

(2,523 posts)

1. How about a rooster's definition of daybreak? Our neighbor's backyard rooster would go off at 3 am.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:12 PM

Mar 21

womanofthehills

(9,605 posts)

5. Same here

Reply to chia (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:40 PM

Mar 22

My rooster always crows about an hr before daybreak .

anciano

(1,739 posts)

2. Both....

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:15 PM

Mar 21

They instinctively observe.

Think. Again.

(22,330 posts)

3. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 10:32 PM

Mar 21

(From Shakespeare's 'Hamlet')

JoseBalow

(7,117 posts)

4. Devi usare un pollo

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Sat Mar 22, 2025, 02:32 AM

Mar 22

womanofthehills

(9,605 posts)

6. Roosters can also alert you to someone coming to your housr

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:42 PM

Mar 22

They are very alert to new noise.

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