Does anyone else sing to their horses???

I practice my opera (if you can call it that) when riding ;) though it's terrible for trying to get good breath control lol! I don't think Floyd really appreciates it but sometimes I catch him with his ears to the side listening (and probably wondering why the heck someone is full-on wailing from his back)
 
Yes always lol. Last week was very windy when I was riding she was very spooky, the chickens finished her off ended up singing a made up song about 'the chickens will eat the horsie' did work until I bumped into a dog walker whoops lol
 
I sing along to the radio when I`m mucking out. Strangely, one morning last week I switched the radio on and it was perfectly tuned to Classic FM. Think he`s trying to tell me something!
 
I always sang Three Wheels on my Wagon if ever there was a potential hazard ahead. I think if you're singing, you're breathing is steadier than perhaps it would be if you were worried about something ahead. I would guess too, that by being relaxed by singing, you're not sending tension down the reins...
 
Yes.. I keep up a steady chatter to ASBO cob along with singing 'hey fatty bum bum, sweet sugar dumpling'...don't know the rest of it! I thnk it wrks with him :) Just started riding a different horse this week so I've started singing Campdown Lady to her. keeps me calm if nothing else. :)
 
Oh poor Bud gets all sorts when we're pit solo. I think like others have said its more about relaxing me, I talk a lot too. Chatter away, poor boy gets ear ache ;).
 
All the time, to the 5 year old I ride, the yearlings at the Stud, foals, mares, all the racers on the top yard and in the barns. Horses being prey animals seek confidence in those around them handling them you should talk to them so they are accustomed to how you react and every step you take. This in effect makes them feel more comfortable around us.
 
Yes, but I'm the worlds worst singer!

I'm a teacher so my poor pony usually has to listen to whatever we've been singing at assembly! - only while hacking on our own I must add ;)

This Christmas the kids learnt 'jingle bell rock' and my girl particularly likes the line:

"giddy up jingle horse pick up your feet..."

;)
 
I sing the Gaelic song Beidh Aonach Amarach ( a song about a child pleading to be allowed to go to the horse fair) to the young Irish horses recently off the boat.
This then progresses to other Irish ballads like Poor Little Angeline until the horse is wondering if he'll ever get some peace.

I sing in French to a horse orginating from france but my mare is German and I seem to end up doing Fawlty towers impressions with her.

Apart from when I'm trying to catch her in summer, then singing helps as it makes my breathing regular and disguises my thoughts about a vet and a bullet.
It does help with the wily one.
 
I love to sing but am tone deaf and have a lousy memory, I have been known to suggest to novice riders that they sing as they ride, a 10 yr old thought I was mad, as she was struggling with my lad, I insisted and told her to hum is she couldn't sing.
Her smile after a successful ride said it all, this is the same child who has "I can't" as a mantra, CAN now get on a 16 2hh without a legup, Can now put a bridle together and now CAN ride outside a school.
My 30yr old daughter tried our 16 3hh ex racer, the only song she could think of was "the wheels on the bus" (new mum)
Singing is a tried and tested method of relaxing
 
Yep I do! I also have conversations with her whilst out hacking on our own...I'm normal...really ;) I find it really settles her, and she puts her attention into listening to me rather than finding things to spook at! :p
 
'AND THEN can you believe this happened....... then the idiot said.....'

i rant like anything whilst grooming and riding we also enjoy a nice little sing song to whatever mood im in

Today it was the circle of life from the lion king :D:D:D
 
Yes, but not so much as I used to. When I bought my cob I was nervous out on my own, plus he wasnt as great as his last owner said he was on the roads. Used to spin, bolt, spook, nap etc. Once I started to build my confidence with him someone told me to sing when I was hacking as it relaxed you. Well, it works really well.

Mind you, I am glad he cant tallk, I am tone deaf and I suspect I assaulted his ear drums, bless him.
 
Yup. I talk about random rubbish, on little mare her ears flick back and forth as she listens :p I sometimes sing. On my bigger, more nervous-about-life-cos-everything-is-a-monster mare I whistle short notes at her which seems to help her settle if she is being silly :)
 
I am always singing to my horse, and it makes her relax and me happy too! Today she had Rev Hammer's 'Maid of the River', 'Fifteen Years' and 'The Road' by The Levellers. I'm sure the cyclist who crept up behind us enjoyed my singing too!! Actually, I was singing so loud across the common that I'm pretty sure the whole of Glos could hear me!!
 
Hi OP, i'm always singing to my lad. He's a touch spooky so it calms us both. During the summer i played some tracks loud on my phone and sang along - didn't need a hi-viz since you heard us before seeing us. :-)
 
Yep :) only when we are out by ourselves though! Too embarrassed to sing in company-usually just mutter to the coblet whenever I'm not chatting to the other rider :) my singing usually is 10 green bottles on a loop-I always forget the words to anything else!
 
Yes! I sing whatever is on my mind when I'm schooling- it stops me being so tense!
My friends horse loves me/her singing Hakuna Matata while schooling,grooming etc. he gets proper happy!
 
Yup. Sing whatever comes to me whilst doing night check and skipping out(no one else at yard to judge whether singing voice is strangled cat or something a whole lot more tuneful..;)) and usually plug phone into mp3 radio and horses and cats get treated to loud renditions,at 11pm ish,of what's on my iPod:). Am getting the horses/cats into the Christmas spirit at mo,with Michael Buble's Xmas album,every night.:D
 
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