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
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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
It would be sooooo cool to win this!!!! I shared this article with my chicken friends here in AZ where we DO have a rooster ban in certain counties. Poor things have the worst time finding a home. A lot of people I know are using the new No-Crow collar or similar… Blog post idea? Have you already written about those and how they work? I might have missed it. Thank you again for your posts and Happy Holidays!
This would be great for hatching small batches!
Always good information from the chicken chick.
Thanks for another great giveaway! :)
I would love to win this one! It would be so cool for my kids to be able to see the development inside of an egg.