Does anyone keep silkies, are they quieter?

[Mummy0ftwo12]

Having moved from a smallholding to a small new build on an estate - I was wondering if I could keep a couple of hens and have a feeling that silkies are quieter - but I've only met one which is a small sample size to be going on.

Check your deeds first! We aren’t allowed chickens (I keep them anyway!)

I have/had Silkies. They're generally quiet. The Head Girl does some boking when alarmed which to be fair could be leaves blowing in the wind but her floof is quite large so that spares her from many alarming leaf sightings. There is also the egg song that needs to be sung! They're a very lovely breed ❤️

We have 3 silkie girls, the females are quiet apart from the egg song and they are lovely chickens.

We have a couple as the other half desperately wanted some, mixed in with light sussexes.

The females I don’t think I have ever heard a sound from, but they are awful layers and very poor for meat also. The cockerel makes an awful piercing noise like a cat being strangled inside a trombone.

The light Sussex are quiet enough in my book, especially if you didn’t have a cockerel.

Ours are just kept as pets and produce around 2 eggs per day out of 3 of them but the eggs are tiny. They are small chickens underneath the fluff. We don't keep any other chickens, they can get bullied by bigger chicken breeds.

We’ve had silkies (that have just loved to dig, although they were supposed to be less keen). They did stick with the reputation for going broody though... kept closer to the house as they seemed so vulnerable. I think they were quieter, squeak rather than sqwark. My hens are noiser in the day, celebrating a new egg etc, so a broody who isn’t laying is pretty quiet...