Having second thoughts on pekin ducks

[Count duckulas]

Looking at getting 3 pekin ducks in our home garden but finding conflicting infomation on how loud these actually are. Don't particularly like Muscovy ducks (please don't judge) surely 3 peking won't make a tremendous amount of notice??? Would cambel be a better alternative do you think or not a great deal in it

 

[Isaac 0]

Both of my females QUACK loud enough to cause an earthquack.

 

[RJKnott]

My male Pekin hardly makes any noise at all
My female grumbles almost constantly and really quacks loud when she wants to get your attention about something

 

[thatstegallguy]

I have two females and one male. The females are loud with their quacks, but they only seem to quack when they see me step outside and they run over to me quacking (duck talk: give us mealworms please!). Otherwise, they are not noisy as they go about their day in the yard.

 

[TomCahalan]

Not very loud unless they panic. Some people get their ducks to imprint on them, then the ducks make a lot of noise when their "mommy" leaves them outside. Or if you only have one duck, it will quack constantly because it doesn't have a flock. As long as life is relaxing, you're not going to hear much from them.

 

[Texag87]

My Pekin clucks more than she quacks. Our K/C is our loudest duck. That is how I knew something was wrong last week when I heard the Pekin quacking when the snake bit the K/C.

 

[Tilly6]

Looking at getting 3 pekin ducks in our home garden but finding conflicting infomation on how loud these actually are. Don't particularly like Muscovy ducks (please don't judge) surely 3 peking won't make a tremendous amount of notice??? Would cambel be a better alternative do you think or not a great deal in it

I don’t think you can really say what you are going to get quack wise just by breed. I have several different breeds and it differs from bird to bird. I’d say my quietest are the rouens actually, but I only have 2 of those so it’s not to say some others won’t be talking all the time. Males will always have a softer sound than females, but they also might use their voices more often.

 

[onaharley]

I have Pekins and 1 male, 4 females. The ladies can be loud when they want to. They will sound the alarm when something is a miss in the back yard, like a snake. Or when they want something like being let out at 6 am or it’s treat time. But my one female, Miss Chance is soooo much louder then the rest. Just this morning I told she’s way too loud for 6:30 in the morning!!!! She just likes to walk around shouting orders to the others or me

 

[Miss Lydia]

There is always one in every coop

 

[britesidefarm]

Looking at getting 3 pekin ducks in our home garden but finding conflicting infomation on how loud these actually are. Don't particularly like Muscovy ducks (please don't judge) surely 3 peking won't make a tremendous amount of notice??? Would cambel be a better alternative do you think or not a great deal in it

I currently have two Pekins, male and female, but used to have five. The loud ones are normally the females since they have a loud bark like quack, but the males tend to be a lot quieter. My suggestion is to get three males unless you want to hatch some eggs in the future. If you do want to hatch, then I would suggest you get two females and a male to avoid males fighting over the female. Hope this helped!