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[IllegalChickens]

Council have a blanket ban on livestock but I maintain chickens are pets, and I don't live in a council house and someone else has pigeons that stink, and I get on with my neighbours BUT which breeds are quiet - some make a lot of noise anyway, I know that, my Bluebell used to trumpet the arrival of a new egg in the shrubbery so much the whole street knew she had laid an egg.

 

I've heard Marans are quiet.

 

Your opinions and advice, please?

[mollyripkim]

Well I have silkies which are generally very quiet although they do let me know if for example a strange cat comes into the garden. They tend to chatter rather than make loud noise. I think there are exceptions to every breed though as one does quite a loud egg announcement. My opinion is that they make less noise than others things around, dogs barking, car horns etc.

[mollyripkim]

Welcome to the forum by they, just noticed you are new.

[Leeloo]

My Australorp and Black Star are fairly quiet with a few exceptions! For instance, when the Black Star is broody (not infrequently, unfortunately) the Australorp decides to play rooster and makes a screechy crow around sunrise that sets off the neighborhood dogs. Other than that, they are quiet. I put them on the side of my less nosey neighbor and he figured out fairly quickly that I had them when they started doing their egg song. However, I'd had them for a year and a half before my nosey neighbor who is always out in the yard figured out they were there. This was after I started leaving them out most of the day and they got brave enough to wander and dug up termites under the fence that adjoins his yard! He didn't seem upset about it! I was worried since he's sort of the fussy type!

[clucker1]

The girls I have had from Omlet ie both pepperpots and gingernuts have been quiet. The Bluebelle on the other hand makes a right racket.....mosst mornings I hear her trumpetiong the arrival of the egg or if something is amiss I hear about it. Dimrose (the Bluebelle) is by far the noisiest of my lot. Hope this helps. I wouldn't have another one on this basis.

[LottyJ1]

It can depend on the bird but if you go to a good breeder they will understand if they are for a back garden and often swap if you get a noisy one.

 

My Plymouth rock is very quiet and so is the Marans but when she does get annoyed its a very low noise so not bad. Most will announce an egg or get noisy if they want to use the nesting box and someone else is in there

 

I have had several ex-batts too (5) and only one was noisy when we arrived home from work - she would hear the car and shout for us to let them out.

[sjp]

Council have a blanket ban on livestock but I maintain chickens are pets, and I don't live in a council house and someone else has pigeons that stink, and I get on with my neighbours BUT which breeds are quiet - some make a lot of noise anyway, I know that, my Bluebell used to trumpet the arrival of a new egg in the shrubbery so much the whole street knew she had laid an egg.

 

I've heard Marans are quiet.

 

Your opinions and advice, please?

chickens under the law are livestock

if I were you I'd ask who ever told you from the council that you can't keep chickens to check the Allottment Act 1950 section 12 as when I asked a council officer at my local council I was told that they have obide by that act well in England at any rate. basically if they ignore an act of Parliment then they have a problem enforcing any other act should a court case come up or you could just start keeping chicken if you own your house and wait to see if they take action then quote the above act

cockerels are another matter through as they are covered under noise regs'

[Chortle Chook]

I think it depends a bit on the chicken rather than the breed. I have a silkie who makes one heck of a din if she feels she has not got enough room in the nest box - she does not like to share My other silkie is a very quiet little soul. My Polands are also rather quiet. They chatter a lot but quietly

 

I'd ask whoever you get them from if you can take back and swap the odd hen if she makes a racket.

[AlisonH]

My bluebelle is pretty quiet but, like you, is loud when it involves laying an egg. My amber star is quiet a whinger. She fusses if she doesn't like something or if she knows you're in the house but she wants to be out of the run and into the garden.

[Egghead68]

My Pekin makes a terrible racket anytime she is remotely unhappy about anything.

[Redwing]

OP - all chickens will make some noise sadly, individual personalities will dictate how much rather than breed

 

I didnt think the Allotment act applied to land with a dwelling and it does not apply to council houses

 

The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to any parcel of land attached to a cottage, and the said provisions, other than those of section two, shall not apply to land let by a local authority

[sjp]

OP - all chickens will make some noise sadly, individual personalities will dictate how much rather than breed

 

I didnt think the Allotment act applied to land with a dwelling and it does not apply to council houses

 

The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to any parcel of land attached to a cottage, and the said provisions, other than those of section two, shall not apply to land let by a local authority

 

as I said the info I was given was that my local council use's the act as their guild line and they allow chicken to be kept by council tennants. nothing goes through with out legal advice at the moment

[heth1986]

I asked this question when I was first looking. The consensus was basically that each and every chicken is an inividual, and I agree with that, BUT my experience was that my silkies were remarkably quiet, unless broody (alot of the time! ) but then they just growled , however silkies are not best known for their laying so if you're after a bounty of eggs, probably not the best breed.

 

i've also had black star hybrids. These were wonderfully friendly birds, they weren't particularly noisy, they chattered contently when I was around and other than that I never heard them other than the odd egg chorus, but even that was only one of them and not every day. I asked my neighbours a few times if they were too noisy and they said they hadn't even heard them! Unfortunately these were all taken by Mr Fox this year, but I highly recommend the black rocks.

 

I'm now onto Cream Crested Legbars that i bought as day old chicks... at 6 weeks old, they're giddy little wotsits and I'm pretty sure they're going to be the noisiest out of the lot of them! But they're like comical little clowns so I don't care

[Chortle Chook]

I've heard (sorry pun not intended) that ex-bats are not very noisy and they certainly sound very rewarding to keep.

 

I don't really understand at all how a local council is going about saying whether chickens can or can't be kept on a privately owned premises ( though of course they'd have every right to say no about chooks on their own premesis). Normally this would be something in the deeds not a local law Are you sure that the council is saying this or is it just hear say from people around you who are not too keen on the idea?

[Cheeky Chooky]

Agree with Redwing; all chickens make noise to some extent and as others have said, it depends on each individual chicken rather than the breed. Our Silkies are all quite vocal, our ex-batts 'sing' loudly when they see movement in the kitchen , our Australorps can be noisy if startled and our Orpington Dolly is pretty vocal too; she sounds like she's saying her name

[Qemba]

The quietest chickens I have own so far have been my rescues (warrens) and my noisiest has been a Bluebelle who is very loud and very vocal. The cream legbar I have is very quiet too. I hope this helps.