Roosters in the Morning and Other Glorious Animal Sounds

Myth: In the country, the rooster crows at sunrise to greet the weary homesteaders to another glorious day in the country...NOT!

First of all, roosters crow whenever they darn well feel like it! Ours past, and very present, roosters have decided that 3 a.m. is an excellent time to start exercising their vocal cords--hey...if no one else is awake...NO COMPETITION, right? And EVERY ONE will be able to admire the unique, high-pitched yodeling for miles around....Oh, and hey, if you're lucky enough to have 2+ roosters, as we do, you might be able to experience your own dueling banjo symphony for hours at a time...what a deal!!!!
In one of our "brighter" (or desperate) moments of our family odyssey, a "friend" offered to give us some "extra" roosters she had procured at a county fair. Thinking about all that fried-chicken-in-waiting made us greedy and vulnerable...so, we enthusiastically agreed! By the time we unloaded our "unbelievable" good luck in the form of a feathered treasure, we discovered we had us 72 (that is not a misprint) clucking 3 month old roosters. OK...roosters start to test out their cockadoodles anywhere from 5 months to 7 months. Early cockadoodles sounds more like a chicken caught by surprise by a slamming barn door...and they are caught in it. In a nutshell, it's not aesthetically pleasing! Well, to say the least, to have 72 potential alarm clocks was a bit alarming, no horrifying, no terrifying...
I have to be honest, maybe it's something like post-traumatic syndrome...I can't really recall all the details when our "boys" hit prime maturation. Maybe it can also be attributed to sleep deprivation...I'm not sure.
So, just FYI--all those movies with the rooster bursting into song at the break of day...it's a bunch of hooey....but, the fried chicken... delicious!