12/11/2024
Horses stomachs are delicate things really. Too much food and they release food too soon as it doesn’t prepare the food adequately before it goes into its next journey.
Empty stomachs are bad as they are at risk for stomach ulcers as the acid in the lower part splashes onto the upper part
This was the huge stomach I showed you from a 34 year old horse I studied (after death) at the weekend.
He literally gorged himself. But on further study I found a lump of tissue in his omemtum - the thin web like structure that covers the stomach
The greater omentum and lesser omentum are connective tissues associated with the greater and lesser curvatures of the stomach.
Maybe this “lump of tissue”which measured 5 x 6 cm caused the stomach not to empty properly.
There was plenty of digested food throughout the rest of his gut so I am perplexed.
The lump- without histology, I cannot say for certain what it was but in my experience with human and horse tumours I believe it to be a tumour.
Unfortunately it was discarded in error 😲 before I had the chance to study it.
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