Quiet ducks

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Jennsbirds

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Feb 24, 2013
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Currently, we live right next to someone who owns a duck. Said duck yaps his head off all night and bothers the crap (please pardon that) out of my sister and her husband.

I, however, want my own duck. I'd get it after constructing my own pond and use the poop water to fertilize my veggies. I also heard duck eggs are delicious in pastry cooking.

Are there quiet breeds of egg ducks? How easy is it to happily put a duck in a chicken coop with chickens?
 
I have Cayugas and they are pretty quiet, males are more quiet then females, I put my ducks with my chickens and they are all good:) And the eggs are awesome! they taste like... like.. well an egg lol
 
countrygirl14 said:
I have Cayugas and they are pretty quiet, males are more quiet then females, I put my ducks with my chickens and they are all good:) And the eggs are awesome! they taste like... like.. well an egg lol
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Wil a cayuga 'talk' all night? Can they be heard through the coop?
 
IMO there is only ONE answer to a "quiet" duck..............Muscovy. There is a ton of pictures on here and some are downright beautiful....
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Jennsbirds said:
Wil a cayuga 'talk' all night? Can they be heard through the coop?
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Well all 9 of my ducks live in the barn and I only hear them when I'm trying to catch them. Every duck is different. If i forget to feed them then they will be pretty loud (keep in mind there are 9 of them only 5 of which are cayugas(4 rouens)) I always have to listen really closely to see if they even are making noise at all! And the Rouens a pretty loud.
 
I agree Muscovy as whole for either sex. After wards, depends frankly my buffs are noisy they babble about all the time, quack A LOT and you can hear them from quite the distance, they have my scovies thoroughly intrigued at their constant babble. My calls? the females are loud, she isn't that constant but for sure will let off a huge bunch of noise when the moment strikes her too.

Most ducks come night calm down and quiet down, i believe a natural instinct to protect themselves at night from preds. The duck you speak of, is she alone? i would find it odd for that noise to be so constant even the babbling buffs(as there now renamed lol) aren't come night the second they hear me however their off and continue quite often throughout the day, just a chatty duck ime.
 
Going Quackers said:
I agree Muscovy as whole for either sex. After wards, depends frankly my buffs are noisy they babble about all the time, quack A LOT and you can hear them from quite the distance, they have my scovies thoroughly intrigued at their constant babble. My calls? the females are loud, she isn't that constant but for sure will let off a huge bunch of noise when the moment strikes her too.

Most ducks come night calm down and quiet down, i believe a natural instinct to protect themselves at night from preds. The duck you speak of, is she alone? i would find it odd for that noise to be so constant even the babbling buffs(as there now renamed lol) aren't come night the second they hear me however their off and continue quite often throughout the day, just a chatty duck ime.
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I agree with GQ something must not be quite right with duck to be quacking at night.
 

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