how 'talkative' is your horse?

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my gelding rarely has much to say to me beyond a low neigh and a flutter of his nostrils, but the mare chatters away in horse as she walks up the field to me (i sometimes imagine she's telling me off for being late/early/other)...

how chatty are your horses (and yes, i know theyre not really talking to me
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poppy winnys squels neight flutters her nostrils the whle was down the filed and sometimes for like 10 mins after she caught etc very chatty becky is very quiet tho
 
Hmmm...I find my mare much more chatty than my gelding too....maybe it works the same in horses as it does in people? My OH isn't very chatty - I imagine he'd be even less talkative if he'd been gelded
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The gelding I share doesnt talk to me, but always has a word or two for his girlfriend if they have been seperated for any reason!
 
my mare whinnies every time she sees me (perpetually hungry though), the gelding huffs at me just before dinner, one of the fillies talks to me a bit when she feels like it, and the other (homebred, but very much her own woman) has never said anything to me at all.
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i like it when they're talkative.
i have a jrt who squeaks and squawks at me all the time though, so he keeps me amused!
 
My gelding whickers every time he sees you - even more so at feed times and he not food motivated at all.

OH's mare is very quiet - think we've had 2 whickers in the last year and she is food mad. She squeals her head off if I take my lad away for any reason though
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Both my mares never shut up!! especially the filly, she shouts ay everything and anything, you could never lose her, you would hear her before you see her
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Mine never shut up, I only have to walk out of the door and they are chuntering at me, then yelling to their mates in another field to tell them I'm there. I don't give treats, and they aren't on hard food right now so it's not a food thing. They just like talking. The riding horses even chat to me when they see their tack coming, a sort of "Come on, hurry up, get on with it. Where are we going?" conversation. My daughters haffy even talks when he's cantering, I call him and he'll charge up the field chatting away to me in horse,possibly abusing me, but it's quite touching. They don't talk to my husband or anyone else as much as they do to me.

When they go out they shout to their friends, about half a mile from home they will start telling them they are on the way back, and when they get home, they all talk at once.
 
Apart from my enormous Spotty Horse, my mares are by far more vocal than any of my geldings.

I have one mare in particular; it doesn't matter what time of day or night I return from being out, she always always calls to me. She is a real sweetheart.
 
Oh, very!! Especially on outings. When we were on a little 'working holiday' in Oxfordshire, I was hacking over kirtlington park grounds, and Chloe's polo buddys (she got into their field the night before and had a party
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) were spotted in the distance...she stood stock still and let out the loudest whinny - it shook her entire body! Then she just carried on tootling along....
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Whether I am walking over to her with a feed, hay saddle and bridle, or nothing just to say hello, I always, every single time get a lovely whiinie...
Bless her ickle cottons.
Kare x
 
Chex is really quiet, I've heard him neigh about 3 times in 9 years. He occasionally whickers for his food, and squeals at other horses when he's speaking to them but apart from that he's quiet.
 
My mare is very talkative. She neighs, whinnies and nickers to me all the time - even if I pass her stable to go into the tack and back again she makes a noise! I almost wonder if this is where the word "nag" comes from!!

My horses are kept down the lane at a holiday cottage and recently a horsey couple were staying. The lady came to tell me that all afternoon, whilst standing in, my horses are absolutely silent, the lady was in the garden reading a book when suddenly my mare starts neighing and making a racket, worried the lady stands up and looks over the hedge and within a minute my car pulled up - so my mare had heard my car turn up the driveway (a long driveway!!) Sweet insn't it!
 
mine and sis's both call to us when they see us coming down the field. They also nicker excitedly when they see their tea
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Pidge does call a lot when Sunny is out of sight too
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