I thought I’d use this week’s Flock Focus Friday to celebrate my beautiful boys at Blazing Trails Farm! I’ve got a major beef with the negative perceptions perpetrated by many rooster detractors. Until I began keeping chickens myself, I didn’t realize that roosters are no noisier than barking dogs and while it’s true that a rooster may crow at daybreak or in the middle of the night if disturbed, dogs can too, and crowing can be managed easily by sound-proofing and light-proofing the coop or by bringing the rooster into another interior space (garage, basement) to sleep at night. Measured in decibel levels, upper 70s are annoying to most people.
A rooster at 328 feet = 48 dB
A lawnmower at 328 feet=107 dB
A barking dog at 400 feet = 48 dB
A typical car interior on the highway=75 dB
So, before conceding an argument that roosters should be outlawed, a more critical assessment of the facts of rooster sounds and behaviors should be made.
Sources, decibel levels:
http://www.controlnoise.com/decibel-chart
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm
http://www.anilak.com/sound-level-dog-barking/
http://wordinfo.info/unit/620/ip:1/il:D
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/pdf/0190.pdfhttp://www.noisehelp.com/noise-level-chart.html
Kathy Shea Mormino
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I thought I’d use this week’s Flock Focus Friday to celebrate my beautiful boys at Blazing Trails Farm! I’ve got a major beef with the negative perceptions perpetrated by many rooster detractors. Until I began keeping chickens myself, I didn’t realize that roosters are no noisier than barking dogs and while it’s true that a rooster may crow at daybreak or in the middle of the night if disturbed, dogs can too, and crowing can be managed easily by sound-proofing and light-proofing the coop or by bringing the rooster into another interior space (garage, basement) to sleep at night. Measured in decibel levels, upper 70s are annoying to most people.
A rooster at 328 feet = 48 dB
A lawnmower at 328 feet=107 dB
A barking dog at 400 feet = 48 dB
A typical car interior on the highway=75 dB
So, before conceding an argument that roosters should be outlawed, a more critical assessment of the facts of rooster sounds and behaviors should be made.
Sources, decibel levels:
http://www.controlnoise.com/decibel-chart
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm
http://www.anilak.com/sound-level-dog-barking/
http://wordinfo.info/unit/620/ip:1/il:D
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/pdf/0190.pdfhttp://www.noisehelp.com/noise-level-chart.html
I have been dreaming of an incubator for so long! This would be perfect to add new babies to my small backyard flock.
Done! Fingers crossed! Thank you for the amazing giveaway! sonyadmorris@gmail.com