Strange object found in horses poo

I had this happen to me a while back and we discovered it was actually a rabbit's stomach. We guessed that the poor bunny had probably been killed and eaten by a fox in the paddock and then one of the horses had pooped on top of it. Worried me to death to start with as I also thought that it was something one of the horses had 'passed' :eek:
 
I have had something like this in the middle of a dung in the field, but it was still wriggling, there were several of them and it was a mice nest. Granted not as big as the one you describe, could it be a rodant foetus ?
Email the pic to your vet college or vet, or even better tale it in and await opinions.
Could it be the head end of a bloody big tapeworm
 
cremedemonthe said:
I'm with you on this one, it looks the same exactly the same as a rabbit's stomach. I pull them out of rabbits when gutting them, almost identical to this.
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Thats interesting, when removed from the rabbit whats inside the sack when you cut the sack open?
 
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OMG that looks exactly like the one I found!! i was assuming it was horse poo but it could be the grass the rabbit had not digested!!! thanks the most plausible explanation :-)
 
That does indeed look like a rabbit stomach, sure that as you say the stuff inside was what the rabbit had eaten, and the poo just happened to land on top! Yuck though!
 
facinating though worrying find, I would think from reading the posts and viewing the pics that it will be a Rabbit's stomach. Never seen anything like it but it does look like that other picture posted up and if it had digested food inside it then it must have had a life outside the horse to have excrement inside. maybe just keep an eye out for anymore
 
It does look like what my cats leave on my bathroom mat, usually with the back legs and fluffy tail of poor bunny. If it breaks open it is full of poo and makes a right mess.
Have kept mat on bath edge since.
 
cremedemonthe said:
I tell you it is a rabbit's stomach, next time I'm gutting one I post a picture!
Chances are fox left it, then horse poo'd on it. Don't know why fox would be so choosy,my dogs eat them as I chuck them in the bucket of bits. Full of goodness.
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Thanks soooo much for all your suggestions, I do agree that its a rabbit stomach.
Thanks again I can stop panicing now!! i thought (unlikely as it is) that my horse's stomach was coming apart!!
 
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