Does your horse have a strange neigh...?

Mine are fairly normal but my old boy, a very chunky, cut late, manly, arrogant Section D had the girliest, highest pitch whinny you could ever think of. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger opening his mouth and Joe Pasquale's voice coming out.
 
We had the best little Connie who neigh ed quite a lot but when excited couldn't finish one! (Takes too long to neigh properly you know!)
He'd literally stop half way through, it was the most bizarre thing
 
mine doesn't often neigh but when she does its very loud, relatively normal sounding though. However, she does do this odd thing where she squeals but on the inhale. So it sounds like an extremely big inhale of breath, usually as she's canters off bucking in the field.
 
The pony has the most annoying, shrill neigh. She proper yells. She is also very vocal & will yell at me for anything & everything.
S - the girliest, campest neigh ever, but it definitely suits him. He is quite camp.
C - his is normal sounding to start but seems to lift in tone & ends with a bit of an annoying squeak.
V - his neigh is normal but he can't do the huuuhuhuhuuuuhuhu Whinney for food etc. He starts it but it just comes out in a big long noise like Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
He sounds a little bit like a deep, reverberating air horn 😂
 
Just whilst we are on this subject of weird neighs that horses make. Just to remind folks that if anyones horse suddenly develops frenzied vocalisation and starts head shaking, develops muscle stiffness and suffers colic like symptoms then be aware of atypical myopathy and this (and Autumn) are the times of year when horses suffer from this condition.... here is more about it from a random site I have selected :http://www.scott-dunns.co.uk/equine_atypical_myopathy.htm
 
Well my huge cob had a little squeal for years and was the youngest of our 3 geldings. When he teamed up with a little mare his voice changed and his neigh went very low and sexy! But the high pitched squeal used to reappear in moments of delight, usually when he didn't see me coming until the last second and he'd realise lunch had arrived:-)
 
Pie has a very high pitched neigh. He only does it when the other horses go out and I keep him in. If he's particularly upset he sometimes screams like a little girl which sounds very odd coming from a big Irish lad! He also has a nice low whinny, barely more than a whikker for when he is delighted to see me because it's dinner time! Then his food bucket is greeted with a long low whikker which you can hardly hear, can just see his nostrils fluttering.
 
Mine makes a very high pitched whinny like a filly. But he is a gelding.

He has also once made an extremely high pitched almost whistle noise when my dad gave another horse a treat and not harley. He doesn't like sharing his treats.
 
My girl has a low rumble (where's my breakfast?) that someone described as like starting an outboard motor.
Her 'calling' neigh is a bit feeble, there's a lot of air passing through but she doesn't really engage her vocal chords.
Then there's her "I'm a Welsh stallion" snort...explosion of air through the nose.
 
Hoof_Prints said:
Weird thread title, but my horses seem to have strange neighs. I have one pony who has a perfect neigh, she should be recorded for the fake neighs in films so she is my comparison pony. I have one gelding who just does a soft "huuhuhhhhuhhh" most of the time (or failing that, a shrill girly whinny that's embarrassing), one who sounds really goofy and does a yuh-yuyuhuh-yuh, another who's neigh is so deep she is probably picked up on the Richter scale, one that seems to do perfect scales up and down, and then there's our latest one who sounds like something from Jurassic park.. honestly it scares people.

Is this normal or do I just have weird horses? I might have to record them!
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We have gelding that sounds like a mare, really high pitched and another we call her raptor as she sounds like one. And we think she could be a voice over for jurrassic park
 
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hahaha, absolutely love the replies on here, didn't expect so many! relieved to hear my horses are not the only weirdos around ;) My gelding just sounds extremely camp. The Jurassic park horse just screeches, none of the others horses respond to him and the only reply he gets is off the peacock!
 
My gelding sometimes neighs when I arrive but usually he makes the 'huuuhuhuh' sound which he also makes when he's waiting for his food. His neigh is a textbook horse neigh, like one you'd hear in a film! :) My mare never bothers to neigh, she just snorts at everything like a pig. She doesn't squeal at other horses, either. There's only been one occasion she's made a noise other than a snort and that was when my gelding was taken out the field for the farrier one time and she was very stressed out (she's barefoot, never seen the blacksmith's smoke before), it was just a more girly neigh than my boy's. So mine don't have unusual neighs, one just prefers pretending to be Miss Piggy. Maybe I'll rename her Peppa :D
 
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