While looking for someone to teach him how to crow, a rooster learns to sound like many different animals and finds that his new skills come in handy.

When the rooster loses his "cock-a-doodle-doo, " the other animals on Bonnie Bumble's farm are not able to begin the day.

Dudley the rooster's ability to make the sun rise with his crowing is questioned by a spiteful goose, whose malice almost destroys the popular rooster.

Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.