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My Amish neighbor had a bad day.

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Formerly PaMike

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Saturday I was looking out my back window and saw my Amish neighbor coming up the road with his team of 4 workhorses. They were pulling a cornpicker and empty wagon. They turned into the field and he stopped the team so he could start the engine on the picker. All of a sudden the end horse falls over. It flails around a bit and gets back up. A few seconds it falls over again. By this time I thought the horse got tangled in the harness. I head out the back door to give him a hand. I figured he might need an extra hand to get the horse untangled. I walk up to him and ask him if he needs a hand. He replies "I think the horse is having a heart attack." Sure enough, the horse wasnt tangled up at all. Took about 1 minute total. The rest of the team just stood there while we unhooked the harness. Its a little tricky getting a harness off a dead horse still hooked to a team.The neighbor said he never had that happen before...
 
Had my last draft horse died like that.His eyes rolled back and he was dead before he hit the ground.The vet thinks he might of had a stroke.
 
That is so sad! We have horses too and come to love them (except one). One day last December, one of our favorites had to be put down due to old age and extreme arthritis. The vet did his job with kindness and respect, and wife and I were shedding a few tears. The driver of the haulage truck was there and in kindness asked if this was the first time we had to put a horse down. My reply was "no, we come to love them all".

Paul in MN
 
I remember turning our herd of holsteins out to pasture after milking and one of them walked about 100 feet and dropped over dead. Vet said she had a heart attack.
 
We were milking cows one evening and all cows were in their stalls, as we were standing there one cow let out a loud bellar and fell to the floor, then she got up started eating again, left out another loud bellar and fell to the floor, dead, assumed it was heart attack. Our son was standing there also and commented "go figure, thats my luck, she was my only cow" At least he made light of a grim situation.
 
I feel for him, we had to put one down Sat. Horse was pretty high strung, when the lady bought him he came off the truck very sedated. She sold him and was atttempting to load him out without sedation. I didnt realize he wasnt 'under' until it was too late. Since her rent was more than paid up for the month and she hadnt asked me to help load or haul I didnt go bother them. We have horses loading in and out all the time. Long story short, he turned inside out on the trailer and ended up breaking both front legs.
 
I have read that horses do have heart attacks.One farm editor wrote that a horse he was cultivating with dropped while standing still during a rest stop.
 
In about '74 I had my dad out to cut 5 spring calves, mid October. He'd cut hundreds, said he'd never lost one. Next morning, 3 of the 5 were dead. No bleeding. Night was cold and foggy, only thing I could figure was that they were a little shocky, then got chilled and died of hypothermia. I bought a bander and never cut another, and I don't think he ever did either.

Kind of took the fun out of the cattle business. I did it for about 10 years, but decided I was missing out on my kids' childhoods. Sold the last of them in about '85, haven't regretted it.
 
Dad lost some years ago that way. Recently at a fair one dropped dead pulling. Quite a sprectacle and negative press on animal abuse. (he did not win his weight class)
 
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