Having second thoughts on pekin ducks

[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

 

[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.