Hello,
I have been reading a lot from these forms and I would like to thank a lot of you because I really learned many things from you.
So, I love it when horses start being noisy. Honestly, I have seen some videos for horses that neighs when being walked or standing still and it’s very awsome and lovely. However, my horse never made any kind sound unless it’s real big deal. Like for example after trying him for 1 month the first neigh he did was when I put him in the trailer once i bought him. after 1 hour down the road he did one again and thats it. The third one was when all his friends where being ridden infornt of him and he was just there alone inside a paddock from distance while I was doing something that I don’t remember what is it.
All 3 where like strange and so high pitch short not like a typical horse neigh.
I only ride him one hour daily+ 2 hour between walking him, grooming or letting him play then back to his paddock with his friends. So i spend 3 hours daily with him plus almost full day in weekends and I never heard him neigh since the trailer and the other event. His history, he was a race horse then show jumping 1meter and 50cm. Then I got him And i do a mix of both at home no stress at all when he is in the mood between now and then. He is now ten and I taught him too many things like shake hand kiss smile yes no lay down …etc but i tried everything that google offered me with no luck like he goes crazy on oranges and apples and I can make him do everything when I have either in my hand but never even slightest sound. And yes i will not scare him to death in the trailer to make him neigh more or on cues.
So lets see what you guys did or even tried either worked or not it’s never hurt to try. If you worked on neighing on cues share your experiences please
Why do you want him to neigh? because it is cute and sounds like a person talking?
Count your blessings he is not an obsessively calling to all his buddies constantly. Or that he is not banging down his stall door at feeding time.
A quiet horse is a happy horse, all else being equal.
Learn to recognize and respond to bthe quiet ways he communicates with you.
You want to see what we did or tried, either worked or not…to teach our horsies to neigh neigh? Why on earth would someone want to do that? Noisy neighing isn’t cutsie at all. It’s a nuisance.
Horses don’t neigh for the fun of it or when they have nothing to say. Maybe your horse is just content and doesn’t have anything to say? When a horse is neighing, it’s usually when they are in distress and calling out for their friends. The 3 “strange and so high pitch” actually IS typical of a horse that is in distress. Like when loaded in the trailer, then after driving away from his friends, and then when his friends were being ridden and left him behind. Normal, not strange at all.
Focus on building a -normal- healthy relationship, with no promoting of bad or annoying behavior. Be careful so he doesn’t bite your face off playing kissy kissy face or strike you with his front leg. Don’t over feed apples, you’ll give him a stomach ache. Never heard of feeding oranges to a horse. Not sure if it’s ok. Probably good to not overfeed those either. Stay away from the trailering of the horse for awhile, too, since you said you don’t want to scare him to death. Overall, just enjoy your horse and be happy that if he’s not neighing much, he is probably fairly content with is living arrangements.
No advice on how to teach a horse to neigh on command. 
But realize horses are not noisy by nature - being prey you do not want to alert predators to your whereabouts.
Watch how your horse interacts with his buddies - not a whole lot of noise there, mostly small physical signals to each other.
A cocked or pinned ear
Swishing tail
The Look that says Get the He** out of My Space
Head up on High Alert
Might be more fun to see if you can get your horse to recognize you giving these same signals.
Just don’t “Cry Wolf” to him :eek:
Mine are either vocal, or their not. Whether or not they noisy seems to be just the way they are wired. If they tend to be vocal, they seem to vocalize more once they get to know me. I have three right now, two are quiet but the third mutters and putters and squeeks the entire time I work around him. We have a monitor in the barn and every once in awhile, when hay or breakfast is a few minutes late, he let’s off a blast and it sounds like he is in the living room. He makes his wants and needs known loud and clear.
Just enjoy your guy for who is.
A chatty horse doesn’t have to be a rude horse 
I find that horses are either very vocal or they’re not. My horse is VERY vocal. He whinnies when I call him in from turnout, he whinnies when I open the door to the barn in the morning, and when I bring his grain, and when I’m turning him out. He offers me a wide variety of vocalizations, from the low rumble to the HI HO SILVER type whinny. He isn’t calling his buddies or banging on his door - he’s never done those things.
My horse is naturally chatty, and he’s also very treat-oriented. He will offer behaviors for me if I am offering a treat. Since he was already chatty, and understood what “good boy” meant, I praised when he would vocalize. I would also try to get him to nicker back at me and that took a couple of days of trying before he offered a vocalization and I gave him a granola bar - ever since then, he understands that sounds are good and will offer me whinnies and nickers.
I’m not sure that there’s a way to make a horse that is basically not very vocal more vocal. If you figure out something that incites them to vocalize consistently, you can start building on that with rewards and praise, but given that your guy seems to vocalize only as a stress sort of response, it would be hard (and unkind to put him in that kind of stress to get him to make a noise, and start trying to build). My guy is funny, he’ll consistently nicker a “Howdy,” a cheerful sort of chortle, if he sees people coming toward him, whether they’re a person that regularly brings food/treats or not. But he doesn’t do the “Hey, where IS EVERYBODY, where are you goooooiiiiinnnngggg?” whinny if he’s left alone, usually, nor whinny back at his paddock buddy that is lamenting his departure when I take him out.
Yeah he usually swish his tail before jumping the fences to play with other horses He kills me because he jump the fence trotting but he give me that swish and cute look like he moth****r am out of here
Ahaha thats cool, hope you both grow strong and healthy.
enjoy and thanks for your time
Thank you very much for your time and I appreciate the advice.
By the way my horse is keept in a herd in big paddock which can enjoy his time playing with other horses. So no need for a stall theory. 
I find it very awesome when the horse is noisy just personal opinion. Thanks for replying
Ahahaha i liked “he is in the living room” thank you, for your time.
Were these videos Hallmark movies on TV? Because most horses do not neigh when being walked except in bad TV movies.
I’m with everyone else - either the horse is naturally vocal, or not. But even naturally vocal horses don’t just neigh when being walked or standing still - they are trying to communicate with someone. Mine nicker to each other, and make low rumbles when I open the feed bins. That’s about it.
It’s possible you could try to cue the behavior, but I don’t know that it would really change their natural behavior - I don’t think they would become more vocal in general.
I get it, I do. One of mine talks, and I love it. If I come out of the house and he sees me, he picks up his head and whinnies at me. A real, full, bad western movie whinny. If he doesn’t see me, I call his name, and then he picks his head up and whinnies at me. He also has a conversational sort of wuffle when I am walking towards him.
I do know, in my rational mind, that this reflects my relationship with him as treat bringer and giver of scratches, but I am still bemused by it.
My other two are much quieter. They have the shrill, “Where are you going?” herd bound whinny, and the “Gimme, gimme, gimme” wuffle when about to be fed, but that’s about it for their vocalizations.
That said, I have no idea how you would teach or cue the behavior. The one that talks to me was that way when I got him; the quieter ones have always been quiet.
It will be a sad day when I’m no longer greeted by that whinny and have that funny back and forth conversation in the morning.
I’m going to guess you are quite young, OP, forgive me if I am wrong. But you have to know that horses in TV shows and movies are not displaying normal horse behaviors. Most of the time shows and movies will add in horse sound effects like whinnies because horses actually DON’T do those behaviors on command and actually don’t vocalize that often. I have a farm of 23 horses and go days without hearing a single whinny, because that noise is used for communication, usually over a longer distance. Since all the horses are content in their groups, they aren’t usually calling out that much.
I guess you could say I “trained” my mare to do a low nicker whenever I walk by her stall because I happen to think it’s adorable and would often give her a piece of carrot when she did it. So now she hangs her head out of her stall and makes her “cute face” (ie ears up, looking over at me) and does the little nicker. Works every goddamn time. If I try to ignore her, she starts twisting her head sideways like dogs will do to get my attention.
Enjoy the mannerisms and characteristics of the horse you have. Stop trying to force unrealistic behaviors to happen. Most horse people do not want a horse to be whinnying all the time, it’s kind of a grating noise and, to me, it usually means something is wrong, and the horse is either distressed, separated from the herd, etc. When I hear a whinny at my place I’m going to investigate, not smiling at the pretty sound.
OP, you say you think something is “wonderful and you love it” and yet you haven’t acknowledged the multiple posters who have explained why the vast majority of horses do not vocalize all the time. At best, it is a call to attention, at worst it’s a sign of distress or panic.
Your horse does not appear to be particularly vocal. Please do not try and change or alter what he is. There is a reason why Hollywood dubs “horse sounds” into movies - because it’s extremely difficult to train a horse to vocalize on command. I have worked with a number of very excellent horseman who do quite a bit with trick training, and none have them have ever even tried this because it serves no purpose for the horse or the human.
This is true with mine too. I have one who is very vocal and whickers and whinnies when she has any idea that you might be arriving with food. The others are pretty quiet.
Yeah, plus most of the TV movie horses are sounds effect in my opinion because I heard them many times in YouTube and the same sound in another horse movie but yeah more or less I would also love to make him neigh on cues for sure.
Thanks for your time
I think it’s nice too yeah. I sometimes think that old owners kicked the hell out of him if he make a sound when he sees the food because if it’s feed time he stay far away and come later no matter who is feeding him though. Thanks for your response
I love when mine " talk" to me . Which is every morning and evening and usually when I come out to ride. It is loud when they first see me and then a soft nicker when I am there.
I would personally be extremely annoyed to have a horse neighing in my ear as I led them.
