Are Buff Orphingtons calm and quiet hens???

[Kittymomma]

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I wouldn't do it. It's hard on them, they do better with a buddy. How big is the flock that you will eventually need to integrate it with? That can be a huge pain with a single.

 

[LittleFeat]

My Silver Laced Wyandotte is very quiet and just goes and does her thing without announcing to the world. My Buff Orpington is fairly verbal in announcing what she's up to, but by far the one that's going to get me kicked out of the neighborhood is my Rhode Island Red. She announces in advance that she's got something to lay, then she announces that she's going in the coop to get started, then she announces that she's finished and to "come and get it"!! She also is the one to DEMAND I open the coop in the morning. She is hilarious.

My Black Australorp and Easter Egger are both very quiet. The Easter Egger and the Silver Laced Wy. both have the sweetest and cutest little "talking to me" voices.

I love every single one of them and just wonder (as in awe) at the differences in their personalities!

 

[SilverPhoenix]

Mine are pretty quiet, but I'm not sure I'd call them calm, exactly. They're kind of pushy and really enthusiastic about food.

They are friendly and funny and easy to handle, though. They also seem to be under the impression that they're guinea fowl, and spend most of their time following the guinea fowl around.

 

[chuckzoo]

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I wouldn't do it. It's hard on them, they do better with a buddy. How big is the flock that you will eventually need to integrate it with? That can be a huge pain with a single.

I figured as much. I had better get two. My husband is a bit freaked out though as he knows I will want to keep them both and we live in a garden home subdivision.

 

[ChickyLaura]

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I have a BO/EE mix. I can honestly say I've never heard her make a single peep! She is very sweet, though.

 

[chuckzoo]

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I wouldn't do it. It's hard on them, they do better with a buddy. How big is the flock that you will eventually need to integrate it with? That can be a huge pain with a single.

Oh I only have two hens now - BRs.

 

[HEChicken]

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Personally, I would hesitate to add just one hen to an existing "flock". I would always add at least two so that even if the existing hens pick on the newcomers, they have each other for company. If there is only one, she is usually picked on by everybody and doesn't have a pal of her own to hang out with. Since chickens are such social creatures, I have to think this makes it especially hard on them.

 

[chuckzoo]

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I have a BO/EE mix. I can honestly say I've never heard her make a single peep! She is very sweet, though.

Can I have her??????? Pleeeeease!

 

[ChickyLaura]

LOL, sorry! I don't know if she's laying yet... We have a bunch of brown and light brown egg layers, but every now and then we have an egg that's pink-ish, but it could also be light brown-ish...

 

[chuckzoo]

It's funny how you get some that are so nice and quiet and then some that are a little off their rockers - I have one of each and I only have two hens!