After deaths of as many as 70 horses, owner of Oklahoma rodeo company suspects feed was tainted [Video]

Rhett Beutler, the co-owner of a nearly century-old Oklahoma company that supplies stock for rodeos, says he suspects tainted feed is to blame after as many as 70 horses died a week ago. 

Beutler, co-owner of Beutler and Son Rodeo Co. near Elk City, told KFOR-TV that the horses died shortly after being fed.

“We didn’t know what was going on, we just got the feed and started feeding it like always,” Beutler told KFOR-TV. “Then all of a sudden looked up and there was horses just falling over, dying.”

The feed originated in Kansas, according to a statement from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, which has collected a sample of the feed to analyze in two state-certified laboratories. The agency said in a statement that it is also working with the Kansas Department of Agriculture to investigate.

Beutler and Son officials did not immediately …