With Canada Day looming, a popular recreation farm in the Halifax area is asking neighbours to not set off loud and colourful pyrotechnics due to the effect they have on their animals. 

On Friday, Hatfield Farm posted on social media that the use of fireworks on recent nights had caused their horses to panic and stampede.

"They're going to kill somebody," Brian Hatfield, owner of the farm in Hammonds Plains, N.S., said in an interview.

Hatfield said he and his wife had to chase down the horses to …