Given that horses are sensitive creatures anyway, with excellent hearing, I often wonder if they are affected by the noises generated by modern life. There is plenty of documentation to support the idea that long term exposure to heavy traffic noise can cause high blood pressure and autoimmune diseases in humans so could the same happen in horses? horses in stables or fields, that they can't get away from, are often subjected to motorway noise, chain saws, quarry noise, heavy agricultural machinery, the whining sound from airports, repetitive gunfire from commercial shoots etc. etc. If we don't like a noise we can retreat inside but they can't. Is it possible that some of the behaviour problems seen in horses could be related to the stress of noise?
01-28-2018, 02:21 PM
Can horses be affected by noise?
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