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BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts) Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:08 PM Mar 2025

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 2025 OP

How about a rooster's definition of daybreak? Our neighbor's backyard rooster would go off at 3 am. chia Mar 2025 #1

Same here womanofthehills Mar 2025 #5

Both.... anciano Mar 2025 #2

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" Think. Again. Mar 2025 #3

Devi usare un pollo JoseBalow Mar 2025 #4

Roosters can also alert you to someone coming to your housr womanofthehills Mar 2025 #6

chia

(2,835 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 2025

womanofthehills

(11,032 posts)

5. Same here

Reply to chia (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 05:40 PM

Mar 2025

My rooster always crows about an hr before daybreak .

anciano

(2,315 posts)

2. Both....

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:15 PM

Mar 2025

They instinctively observe.

Think. Again.

(22,456 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 2025

(From Shakespeare's 'Hamlet')

JoseBalow

(9,739 posts)

4. Devi usare un pollo

Reply to BOSSHOG (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 02:32 AM

Mar 2025

womanofthehills

(11,032 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 2025

They are very alert to new noise.

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