Hello!

[briandaniel]

What is the less loud chicken breed out there? Also, which one is less loud silkies or sebrama(small breed)?

 

[CluckerFamily]

It is tough to choose a breed that is quiet. Each individual chicken varies so much in each breed, one can be very quiet and her sister will tell the entire world she has just done the impossible and lain an egg.

 

[benevolent_leonela]

It is tough to choose a breed that is quiet. Each individual chicken varies so much in each breed, one can be very quiet and her sister will tell the entire world she has just done the impossible and lain an egg.

I've had so many people tell me Javas are a quiet breed. I have 3, probably the most chatty of the flock. One of them screams all day like she's being starved or something, gosh she's got quite the mouth!

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

Some chickens are louder than others. It varies with the individual, as others have told you.

 

[3KillerBs]

I personally don't think of chickens as loud in general.

Of course my reference for loud is that I've spent much of my life under an airport approach route, near busy train tracks, near an interstate highway, and within earshot of farm machinery and/or power tools.

The quiet, rural spot I'm in right now gets a fair amount of small plane traffic overhead due to a nearby small airport and a certain amount of air traffic related to Ft. Bragg. That's louder than my chickens but my chickens are louder than the sawmill 1/4 mile down the road. So it's a matter of putting the noise in perspective.*

It's not necessarily the volume of the sound that bothers me but the pitch. I don't mind larger breeds' deeper tones but would find shrill sound irritating.

Not sure if that's helpful to you or not.

*When I had my in-town flock my one neighbor had grown up on a farm and liked to hear my rooster while the other figured that if we didn't mind their muscle car they didn't mind our rooster. I had deliberately located the coop on a line between their heat pump and ours to create a masking, white noise effect.