Breaking Horses of Happiness – NRC

The breeze of horses especially when they have fun. The more their environment is respectful of horses, the lighter they are. French researchers have described this behavior systematically for the first time ( PLOS One 11 July).

All horses break. The 48 horses of the French study have done it every ten minutes on average. They make the noise by blowing powerful air out of their nostrils. Why are they doing this? Horse sites offer all kinds of explanations, curiosity and alertness to aggression and fear. Irritations caused by straw or pollen are also mentioned.

The French compared three groups: horse-riding horses that are almost always in the stable; mare horses that are in the meadow half the time; and the horses that are still in the pastures. The two groups of mane horses are less popular than free horses; "The horses in the interior" the least. But if the horses were allowed to go out, their gels doubled. If free horses were allowed to go to a new fresh pasture, their fridges would be increased tenfold

. Is not it pollen? No, say the authors. The happier a horse is, the more it is brittle – and that "happy" can be determined objectively, they explain. A happy horse has his ears forward. Horses in the study with stereotyped behavior, aggression and a poorer condition hardly breathe.