Blood coming from the rectum can represent an extremely serious veterinary medical emergency. If a relatively healthy horse is observed to be bleeding from the rectum, the most likely cause is some type of trauma. I have seen this result from malicious insertion of an object into the horses rectum and from a stallion raping another horse.

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