Can a mirror help your horse overcome loneliness? Six horses in a 2002 study were known weavers. When stabled alone, they swayed their heads, necks, forequarters, and sometimes their whole bodies from side to side. The behavior is thought to stem from the social frustration brought on by isolation. It can be seen in a small percentage of all stabled horses, and owners hate it-they think it causes fatigue, weight loss, and uneven muscle development, and it looks disturbing. People had tried stopping the weaving by installing metal bars that limit a horses movement, but the study found that a different modification to the stable worked surprisingly well: a mirror. Those horses with the mirror were rarely [observed] weaving, the researchers reported. A later study even found that the mirror worked just as well as the presence of another horse. stable-mirrors.co.uk/
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:38:25 +0000
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