Are some horses more vocal than others..???

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Reading the special bond post, loads of people say their horses whinney to them.....

Merlin rarely does...... we have a good bond, but he doesnt really neigh at all...... ever!!!!

He went through a phase a couple of weeks ago where he whickered at me when I took his feed to the field, but has since stopped that particular show of cupboard love!!!
 
sime of the horses whinny at me daily, others only once in a blue moon do ihear them make a sound, defo some like the sound of their own voice more thn others!
 
My own horse never whinnies at me, I feel quite miffed about it. I feed him every day, three times a day in fact, and never a whicker.

But my daughter's pony calls from the minute the back door opens, he has a beautiful whinney, really musical, sort of goes up and down the scales! He used to be kept at a livery yard and wasn't fed properly so he is eternally grateful to be fed, maybe that's why he calls so much.
 
I think he thinks it is beneath him to make it look as if he looks forward to seeing me!!!!

That or he really doesnt like me
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All of my lot do, Anakan is particularly vocal, he whinnies i talk back then he will answer, hes quite chatty most of the time, got great hearing too, Ben hes the old boy and gets so excited especially at breakfast time, i must get a video of him he's hilarious.
They all say good morning which is lovely
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There not spoilt or anything
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Debs x
 
Baz whiffles when he hears me - me can hear me before he sees me as his stable is tucked round a corner on our yard. He can hear my footsteps - knows it's me because he doesn't do it to anyone else - and whickers and whiffles.

It's one of the reasons I'm so passionate about him. I don't feed him you see - he's fed by the yard groom twice a day except at weekends. So if he recognises me approaching we must have a bond that goes beyond food.

When my daughter's home from school and goes to catch him having been away for a while she calls him and he lifts his head, calls back and comes at a gallop - it's really quite an emotional thing to watch..!!! (He's her pony really - I just do the groom bit when she's away at boarding school).
 
Both the Appy's are/were talkative, both liked/like the sound of their own voice, but then both were/are very opinionated!
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Both have/had very deep voices as well, where as the enormous shire clydesdale mares has/ had a very pale pink voice lol
 
Best thing is that when I went on holiday a couple of years ago, the friend that looked after him claims he neighed to her and also came bombing up the field to her!!!!!

He only ever ambles up the field to me, stopping for a wee and a poo everytime!!!!!

The only time he has cantered up was on Sunday when I thought there was something wrong...... but he only did it because the other two horses in the field next door were bombing up and he thought they would get his breccy first
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B doesn't whinny, she talks - she's constantly nattering at me! It ranges from just a flicker of her nostrils that is barely audible, to deep whickering - like a mare talks to her foal. She's always done it to me and she still does it to H occasionally. She'll do it to Berry when I take him in past her paddock and she'll come up to the gate talk to me, until she can't see me anymore and then she goes off to eat. When she hears my truck, she goes up to the gate and I can see her talking!!
 
My boy does a deep whinney/nicker when I approach with his feed or when hes trying to get my attention when waiting to go out otherwise its a girl like high pitched whinney. He doesnt whinney when I get to the yard like some though.
 
My horse only neighs at me when hes stressed, if he thinks hes on his own he neighs at everything that moves!
He whickers sometimes in the morning, but i only notice if im up close as he doesnt make a noise only his nostrils go.
He rarely comes over to me in the field! Its beneath him, i am there to fufil his every whim, why should he make an effort!
Once i left him for a month whilst i was at uni, when i came back i shouted up the field, and he bombed over the field to see me! It was lovely! He soon stopped when he realised he was back in work! :grin
 
Moon (my mare) says hi and won't let any other horse near me. She eats round me when I sit in the field and glares and threatens the others.
My cob talks to everyone all the time and reckons he runs the yard himself.
The gelding is just gorgeous and all whiffley and the fillies say 'who the hell are you?'!!
Can't win with horses. They love you but have different ways of showing it!!
 
jack is like merlin he thinks it is beneath him to show any vocal greeting to me. but ted the coloured foal talks to anything thats got a shadow !!
 
My Haflinger talks all day long every day and it ranges from an 'Im still here' regular yell to a mummy to foal deep rumbling whicker if I am crouched down poo picking in the stable.....She even talks during dressage tests, sadly that means she also sticks her nose in the air to hoot better.

My big IDxTB whickers and neighs when he hears our car coming down the road or if he thinks his food is overdue and at shows. But he's 17 hands and has the highest girliest neigh in the world :-O
 
Mine doesn't greet me in the morning, but he shouts if he thinks he is getting left - if I have to go back in the house for something and leave him tied up, or left in the trailer at a show. He has a particular neigh, not very loud, but it is "oh, don't forget ME."

He is very noisy with other horses. He forms attachments very quickly and if he can't see his particular friend he makes a fuss.
If I have left him in a livery yard if I have been away, when I return they all say he makes a lot of noise. But he isn't silly when he is out, he can distinguish between going out, when he isn't worrying about his friend, and being back home, when his friend should be there, all the time.
 
Mine doesn't whinny to me but he bangs the door if he doesn't get attention quickly enough - he likes me to know who's boss.
He does however whinny very loudly to every horse he takes a liking to at shows, to any horse he sees on a ride, to his best friend if he leaves the yard without him and at various points on rides when there just might be another horse within a 5 mile radius.
When he was coming back into work I went out early one Sunday with my friend. She was carrying on to do a long ride and I turned back. He neighed at the top of his voice all the way back through the village - I don't think anyone got a long lie that morning! The moral of the story is don't buy a horse called Hullabaloo and expect him to be quiet!
 
Star whinnys at me in the morning even after she has been fed (first person on yard feeds)..as soon as i walk up the yard, even if right down the bottom I can hear her, its soo cute
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Then in the evening - ill walk up past her field and call her and she'll look up and scream at me and come over to the gate...she'll even be screaming if she's heard my car before seeing me. I love that feeling, cheers me up after a crappy day
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She may be a moody mare, but she has her moments hehe
 
My mare chats away to me all the time, from a big whinny when I drive into the car park to little nostril flickers. But it was about 6months after buying her before she did, and I suspect a lot of it is cos she associates me with food.

She rarely 'talks' to other horses, except sometimes when I'm riding at feed time and the other horses in the yard are being vocal.
I suspect the conversation goes something likes this:
The other horses "Dinner's coming! Dinner's coming!"
Her: "I know, but the old witch is still riding me, so what can I do?"
 
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My mare chats away to me all the time, from a big whinny when I drive into the car park to little nostril flickers. But it was about 6months after buying her before she did, and I suspect a lot of it is cos she associates me with food.


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Ditto
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The biggest whinnies are reserved for food time, accompanying by scraping, stamping and whuffling like mad, but she also gives me amicable little whickers at other times. Her whinny is very butch for a little 14.2hh mare, it's big and throaty but ends quite musically
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Her companion, on the other hand, I've only ever heard do little whickers and never a full blown whinny, even to his owner.
 
My girlie is vocal...esp. when in season..she can be heard clearly all round the 50 acres where she is...many a time people have mentioned what a great pair of lungs she has..
Heaven help you if you are standing close to her...burst eardrums are a hazard!!!
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I have one chestnut TB who's very very squealy about everything - food, being left alone, having a wee...! Funny thing is, his best buddy, my grey TB, has been with me for nearly a year and I've never heard him make a sound. NEVER - we wondered if he was able to make noise! Until today. I took the chestnut out alone, put the grey in the stable, and when I got back there was this funny gruff noise like a billy goat, and it was the grey! Lol! He's much deeper voiced than I was expecting! Once a year only though..
 
Tinker rarely whinneys etc to me, only if he's out in the field and sees me walking down the road near lunchtime lol! Our big chestnut that we had used to shout all the time tho, even at strangers walking past his field!
 
My last stallion who i bred would call to me the moment i stepped in the yard, if i didn't go and say hello to him 1st he would buck & rear in the stable untill i would go and say hello to him.

If you were out on a ride for a long time he would call, i think mainly to see if there where any horses near by, but his favourite trick was when he went past a shop window he would look at himself or try and catch a glance and scream his head off.

I used to call him my buba, he was a very big strong muscled lad
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but soft as ice cream.
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