I thought roosters crow in the morning to great the rising sun.

There is a rooster somewhere in our neighborhood that crows all night long. 1:21 am (I know what the hell are you doing up at 1:21 am?). and he is cacadoudladoing all nighr long. This is not the first night I hear him .

Luckily  it if far away not to be too much of a bother, but   close enough to hear him.

So I am wondering are the Thais who live him brain dead? or are they such deep sleepers?  And why isn't that rouster arroy mak mak in a nice lemongrass soup already? 

Track him down. Buy him from the owner. Make said lemongrass soup. 

Just for info:

 

Threats. Roosters naturally protect their hens. ... Crowing serves the purpose of alerting the hens to seek cover from a predator and alerting the predator that a rooster is guarding his flock. Predators in the night, or even just perceived predators in the night, will cause a rooster to crow.

 

 

More than one of my hotels that I thought were quiet with grass and green surroundings surprised me by some Foghorn Leghorn.  I too could not fathom how people put up with it all night long. 

2 hours ago, sirineou said:

And why isn't that rouster arroy mak mak in a nice lemongrass soup already? 

I thought Greta Thunberg is hard-core, but cannibalism is a bit extreme for the green!!

Long live the rooster.

 

Rouster (ˈraʊstə) noun. Australian and US. an unskilled labourer on an oil rig.

37 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Just for info:

 

Threats. Roosters naturally protect their hens. ... Crowing serves the purpose of alerting the hens to seek cover from a predator and alerting the predator that a rooster is guarding his flock. Predators in the night, or even just perceived predators in the night, will cause a rooster to crow.

 

 

Right on!

Everybody in a village has hens and a rooster. Too close for comfort. So a rooster thinks he has to mark his territory constantly, day and night by making his very personal vocal signature, heard all over the place. Totally stressed out roosters, affecting their life-expetancy greatly. To be quickly replaced by another rooster when his time has come.

Rural Thais (after 77 Generations) are immune to such nightly noises. Not so Farangs. I have known a few Farangs that left their Rural-Paradise, due to noise from roosters, barking dogs, karaoke-marathons and the loudspeakers from the nearest temple. Leaving their wifes and property behind.

The moral of the story: Not all Farangs are destined to live in rural Thailand.

 

Chooks schmooks. The time to get worried is when they all suddenly go silent.

17 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Chooks schmooks. The time to get worried is when they all suddenly go silent.

Is that when he's sneaking up on you?

City slickers attempting to be country bumkins will never get it.

Noisy Cocks 

I always thought the roosters crowed at the first sign of light. While we think of sunlight, it may be as simple as someone lighting a cigarette, a car driving by with headlights on, or a motion activated light being turned on by a bird or something. And the light doesn't need to be close...

Personally, I enjoy the sounds of roosters crowing no matter the time of night and how close they are. Peacocks, guineas, geckos, frogs too. Some of the many soothing sounds of nature that help me relax. The constant yipping and barking of dogs close by is another story, but I can block it out when needed. Getting yourself all worked-up about it is the bigger problem.

6 minutes ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Getting yourself all worked-up about it is the bigger problem.

Got any tips......................

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With all the old farts on here......

 

Never thought I'd hear somebody complain about a cock being up all night.

3 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

City slickers attempting to be country bumkins will never get it.

That be me. ????, but I am beginning to. 

Anybody want to buy a country home ? It come complete with 4 dogs , goldfish pond and fish , and for the right offer a wife with a pleasant disposition that can turn nasty on a dime. ????

2 hours ago, bojo said:

Got any tips......................

Lower your expectations. Not always easy to do. A guy in my building has high expectations that he has the right to sleep until noon in pure, uninterrupted silence. If he hears a vacuum cleaner down the hall, or a hammer upstairs, he flies into a rage and gets his adrenaline pumping and goes to confront them. The next time it happens he gets even angrier until he's so worked-up that any little noise sets him off. 

 

It's like walking down the sidewalk here. Don't expect everyone to clear you a path, no obstacles, no motorcycles. Set your mind ahead of time that it's part of life here and try to come to terms with it. If possible, even relax and try to enjoy it. I spent a few years living in a motorhome and stayed in truck stops frequently. Trucks driving in and out, generators running all night, instead of fighting it, I laid there and enjoyed listening and it lulled me to sleep. But I realize everyone has limitations. Those stupid sound effects on Thai television yank my chain when I'm trying to sleep and I'll never come to peace with that.

4 hours ago, gargamon said:

I always thought the roosters crowed at the first sign of light. While we think of sunlight, it may be as simple as someone lighting a cigarette, a car driving by with headlights on, or a motion activated light being turned on by a bird or something. And the light doesn't need to be close...

Them bastards go 24 x 7! I rented a place in Puerto Rico, put money down on a year lease mother-in-law unit beneath the owner, before realizing this guy raised fighting roosters. About 60 of them, all with nasty attitudes. I gritted my teeth, wore earplugs to bed, and got my sorry butt outta that place at the end of the year.

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My thanks to the mods for repairing my spelling  faux pas  and eliminating the confusion that it might had been  Australian oil rig  laborers crowing  all night, though they are also known to do that ????

To my defence , as you can all see, the OP was written at about 2am and as such you all should be happy that it was written entirely in English and made some sort of sense. ????

A post in Spanish has been removed, you know full well this is trolling so don't do it

12 hours ago, sirineou said:

I thought roosters crow in the morning to great the rising sun.

Actually they crow at any time.

 

12 hours ago, sirineou said:

So I am wondering are the Thais who live him brain dead? or are they such deep sleepers?

In my experience, South East Asians are incredibly heavy sleepers.  Lights on, people shouting, music blaring, they can sleep just fine.  On the floor, bed made of wood, in a hammock, no problem.  Very lucky in this regard.

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

Actually they crow at any time.

 

In my experience, South East Asians are incredibly heavy sleepers.  Lights on, people shouting, music blaring, they can sleep just fine.  On the floor, bed made of wood, in a hammock, no problem.  Very lucky in this regard.

Yea my wife is that way, She says , "What roosters"  LOL

I am actually jealous, I wish I could sleep that way. Me you look at me while I sleep and I wake up asking " What you looking at" LOL

 

8 hours ago, HeijoshinCool said:

.With all the old farts on here......

Never thought I'd hear somebody complain about a cock being up all night.

It stops him rolling out of bed.

 

 

7 hours ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Lower your expectations. Not always easy to do. A guy in my building has high expectations that he has the right to sleep until noon in pure, uninterrupted silence. If he hears a vacuum cleaner down the hall, or a hammer upstairs, he flies into a rage and gets his adrenaline pumping and goes to confront them. The next time it happens he gets even angrier until he's so worked-up that any little noise sets him off. 

 

It's like walking down the sidewalk here. Don't expect everyone to clear you a path, no obstacles, no motorcycles. Set your mind ahead of time that it's part of life here and try to come to terms with it. If possible, even relax and try to enjoy it. I spent a few years living in a motorhome and stayed in truck stops frequently. Trucks driving in and out, generators running all night, instead of fighting it, I laid there and enjoyed listening and it lulled me to sleep. But I realize everyone has limitations. Those stupid sound effects on Thai television yank my chain when I'm trying to sleep and I'll never come to peace with that.

The ever present condition of being Farang. 

Might be beneficial to your soul to get over yourselves.

On 10/20/2021 at 4:33 AM, swissie said:

Right on!

Everybody in a village has hens and a rooster. Too close for comfort. So a rooster thinks he has to mark his territory constantly, day and night by making his very personal vocal signature, heard all over the place. Totally stressed out roosters, affecting their life-expetancy greatly. To be quickly replaced by another rooster when his time has come.

Rural Thais (after 77 Generations) are immune to such nightly noises. Not so Farangs. I have known a few Farangs that left their Rural-Paradise, due to noise from roosters, barking dogs, karaoke-marathons and the loudspeakers from the nearest temple. Leaving their wifes and property behind.

The moral of the story: Not all Farangs are destined to live in rural Thailand.

 

I got sick of my Thai neighbor's roosters and barking dogs waking me up, so I bought my own roosters & dogs.

20 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

I got sick of my Thai neighbor's roosters and barking dogs waking me up, so I bought my own roosters & dogs.

The only problem with that is that through social evolution , Thais have developed an ability to tune them out.

So now you have to listen to twice as many roosters and dogs, and when you tell your neighbor "How do you like it now that I got roosters and dogs?" he will reply with puzzlement, 

" You got  roosters and dogs?" 

????

We actually live next door to a guy who organizes the cock fighting in our village. He keeps about 6 or 8 of his own and sometimes lodges guest birds down for the weekend's contest.

 

I was a bit bothered about this at first, but I soon got used to it. I hardly notice them at all and it's true what others have said about Asians. They could sleep through a hurricane.

 

The notion that cocks begin to crow at dawn is, of course, an urban myth. (as I've discovered) Country folk sleep right through the cacophony (should I say cock-cophony) and upon waking in the morning the first thing they hear is, well well, a cock crowing!

2 hours ago, sirineou said:

The only problem with that is that through social evolution , Thais have developed an ability to tune them out.

So now you have to listen to twice as many roosters and dogs, and when you tell your neighbor "How do you like it now that I got roosters and dogs?" he will reply with puzzlement, 

" You got  roosters and dogs?" 

????

I can also "tune them out". I think the only thing that puzzled my neighbours was when I DIDN'T have dogs and roosters. I had so many of those scraggy black chickens running about at one time, that it was difficult to count them.

On 10/20/2021 at 7:30 AM, sirineou said:

or are they such deep sleepers? 

Yes. In my experience they can sleep through any din. I suppose it comes from listening to music so loud it makes my ears bleed.