 piece of fat on kind of a string of connective tissue that can be around in their abdomen and they are a little more likely to form them and that in turn acts kind of like a baseball in a stocking and it kind of wings and wraps around the intestine and and that actually had had cut off the blood supply to this horse's intestine that horse unfortunately had to be euthanized they tried to take it to surgery and i it didn't look like the intestines were fixable