I have found that the different breeds have differing amounts of noisiness. The pekins get hysterical over the slightest thing eg a pigeon flying over but they quieten when I go and talk to them. The appenzellers are very vocal generally, just chatting and chuckling to themselves. The dutch bantams are also quite chatty. It tends to be the bigger the bird, the quieter they are. However the chinese geese are the noisiest of all and shout at anything new in the field and if anything gets moved.