Which bantam breeds are quiet?

[Tressa27884]

I've had my little frizzle bantam girl since March - and I don't think I've ever heard her make a peep....

Tressa

 

[kmerkley01]

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One of our Rocks has to tell everyone, about everything! I was sitting in the coop with the girls, just visiting, and this Barred Rock, Bardie Barred, sat on one of the roost levels, right in front of my face and YELLED at me. She was about 18 inches from my face and just hollaring about everything she could think of. "HEY...DID YOU SEE POP'S PUT NEW SHAVINGS IN HERE???? HEY....DID YOU SEE THE SUN WAS OUT??? I LAID MY EGG FOR TODAY! OH...DID YOU SEE THE FLY ON THE WINDOW? I HAVE SUCH PRETTY FEATHERS! I LOVE MY OWN VOICE!! OOOOOH LOOK, SOMTHING SHINY!!! (as she tries to catch the sparkly diamond ring on my hand)."

Both of our EE are pretty quiet. The make quiet peeping/chirping sounds most of the time, although the one that is currently laying DOES sing quite an egg song! The down side is both EE are quite nervous/high-strung and not the easiest to handle.

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

My seramas are so quiet, even the roos. They sound like squeaky toys. I might be worried about bantams on a roof top garden though, most can fly pretty good because of their small size. Maybe silkie hens would be best, mine hardly make a sound and prefer to stay on the ground rather than perch. They don't really "fly" at all due to their silky feathers without shafts it's more like rabbit fur, plus they are a very unique looking bird.

 

[DancingHen]

My silkie hen is one of the loudest in the flock. Her egg song is crazy and goes on forever.

My d'uccles are also very talkative. I do have 3 bantam buff brahmas that are very quiet and very calm. They are good layers and good foragers as well. Pretty easy little hens. My bantam cochins are also pretty quiet.

 

[call ducks]

i almost never here anthing thing from the faverolle pen

 

[MissJenny]

Cochin are mostly quiet -- just a soft mumble-mumble gossip -- but some of them are absolutely silent. And they are the sweetest birds. The scrabbling between them amounts to little more than rolled eyes and stern glances.

Jenny

 

[stilldeb]

My Silkies start this noise like honking that gets everybody else going. Sometimes I have to go out there and tell them to quit it. They sound like a flock of geese. My head hen in one pen - a Bantam Cochin Frizzle, squaks, runs and flaps her wings at the same time everywhere she goes to get everybody out of her way.

But my Sebrights...never make a peep, not that great layers, though.

deb g

 

[Meara]

My bantam EE hens are all sisters and yet a few of them are very quiet and a couple others are very loud.

 

[mama24]

If I had a rooftop city garden and wanted chickens in it, I would get sexlinks for their egg production. I only have 1 red sexlink, but she is the sweetest hen I own. She's not very loud at all, though she does like to talk a lot. My Faverolle is extremely loud and sounds like a goose. My sultan, Pyncheon, and mixed breed Dutch hens are all pretty quiet and docile, but their eggs are teeny tiny, not really what I'd want if I had limited space and wanted eggs. I assum eyour friend wants chickens for the eggs. I am not sure I would recommend bantams inthat case. Now if they just want pretty pets that will occasionally give them eggs, then sure, bantams are great! D'Uccles are very pretty.

 

[Tracydr]

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My old English hens are like this. They make noises that sound like a baby dove, sort of a quiet purr. They follow me around, talking quietly to me all the time, wanting to get picked up or to sit on my shoulder every once in awhile.
I just placed a loud OEGB rooster. He had a screechy crow and he crowed non-stop from 3:30 AM until 10 at night. My other OEGB rooster is very quiet. A quiet crow that you can barely hear outside our concrete wall backyard. We can hardly hear him in the house. He crows maybe ten times a day, a few times around 7 am and then every once in awhile through the day.
Those of you with other banty breeds, which ones lay medium to larger eggs? I was thinking of getting some RIR, New Hampshires,Naked Necks,Leghorn, Wynadottes, White Faced Spanish and maybe Brahmas or Buckeyes, depending on egg sizes. I'd like to replace some of my large fowl with some bantam breeds. I have too many EEs and want more variety of bantams.
It's seems impossible to find egg sizes on the bantam breeds for some strange reason.
My OEGB lay quail sized eggs, tiny. My hens are tiny, tiny OEGBs, though. Probably tinier than standard.