Horse died acutely overnight. Anyone have experience with something like this?
Hey everyone. I lost my first and only horse on Monday after 12 years. He was approximately 26 although that's just a rough estimate. We didn't know anything about his past when we got him except that he was around 13.
He was fine at dinner (ate all his grain and hay) and at breakfast he was laying dead in his stall. We did not perform a necropsy so I will never know exactly what happened. I spoke with my vet who said with an old horse it was most likely colic and even though its not common for colic to kill that quickly it certainly can but again without necropsy there's no way to know for sure.
The strange thing is that there were no signs of any struggle. The sawdust wasn't flattened like he was rolling, there was no dried sweat, no nasal discharge, no tear staining, no trauma, unlikely it was toxin exposure cause the other horse is fine and lives in the exact same environment. He had pooped a couple times during the night. No problem with the heated bucket wiring or anything. He did drink almost all of his water that night but really it didn't even look like he fell. He was in the middle of the stall where he would lay down to sleep sometimes and it really looked like he just calmly laid down and died. I did consider aortic rupture but this usually happens during elevated heart rate and he was just chilling in his stall (it was cold and rainy so they were shut in that night).
I know there will not be any answers but I just wondered if anyone here had ever had a similar experience and wanted to share what happened and what they thought.
tl;dr My horse died suddenly and unexpectedly overnight. Would like to hear from others with similar experience.
Submitted February 09, 2017 at 01:26PM by not_rude_and_ginger
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