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.

Blaze, the Flock King, is a Black Copper Marans.
Sylvio is a Silver Laced Wyandotte cockerel.  
Caesar is a Serama rooster.
Chevy is a Light Sussex cockerel.
Frederick is a Serama cockerel.
Blaze.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week!

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.

Blaze, the Flock King, is a Black Copper Marans.
Sylvio is a Silver Laced Wyandotte cockerel.  
Caesar is a Serama rooster.
Chevy is a Light Sussex cockerel.
Frederick is a Serama cockerel.
Blaze.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week!

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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Carol Payne Lightsey
Carol Payne Lightsey
10 years ago

I tried posting before so if this comes up twice I am sorry. I don't know what I would hatch. Maybe a very friendly cold hardy breed, what ever that may be. So far we have Barred Rocks, a White Rock, and Mottled Cochin Bantams. I would love the incubator. So far I have used my bantams to hatch eggs but we did end up loosing one. If I had an incubator I might could have saved it.

Beatrice Foster
Beatrice Foster
10 years ago

I would hatch Silkie, and Show Girls.

Pamcake
Pamcake
10 years ago

I would hatch Crested cream lagbars first.

LindaR
LindaR
10 years ago

I would hatch out some BLR Wyandotte's.

Ana Saavedra
Ana Saavedra
10 years ago

I'd love to hatch some black copper Marans!

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