What is the quietest chicken breed?

[GirlsHuntToo]

I would recommend Buff Orpingtons for a quite chicken breed. Mine don't make much noise at all.

 

[Shelly0723]

If there is anything heritable about noise, then hatching eggs from the quietest hens may help in future (except that of course you can't hatch eggs from your hens without having a rooster to fertilze the eggs, so you're probably stuck there. Unless you know someone with a rooster and can make arrangements.

I will try this with the white hen and see if the eggs that hatch are quieter. We know several people that have roosters, will see if they can lend us a rooster.

 

[flockofdovz]

We got rid of the roosters 2 months ago, they all went through a mourning period where they barely ate and were not laying as many eggs for a few weeks (we took the eggs they were laying and hatched them (7 in incubator and 3 with the hen in avatar pic) so now we have 10 more plus 3 more pullets we bought a month ago) and then I switched their feed and they are once again laying like normal but I have a hen that has taken over the rooster role and is making a lot of noise. I have 8 adult hens. The noisy ones are 2 of 4 black australorps. I also have the one in my account image, IDK what her and her 2 sisters are, they look like New Hampshire, the rooster was a New Hampshire, and could have been crossed with Silver Laced Wyndotte, Welsummer or other New Hampshire.

We had 1 quiet Black Australorp who was middle of the pecking order. But then we sold 3 noisy ISA Brown hens who were top of the pecking order and she took their spot. So, she became really noise. I had to sell her, too. I tried selling off all of the noisy hens, but another quiet hen would always take their place and become noisy.

 

[No Coop No Problem]

If there is anything heritable about noise, then hatching eggs from the quietest hens may help in future.

If humans created long-crowing breeds then it should easily be possible to do the opposite and make quiet chickens