I was derping around with horses in creative, when I noticed that a baby horse was taking damage. Upon further testing (surrounding a horse with blocks) I found that if a horse is pushed too far into a block then it will take damage.
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I think this is actually a duplicate of a similar issue.

Maybe, I did check and couldn't see one

I can confirm this. I've seen it happen countless times, it seems that in an attempt to get around the block they keep pushing them selves through it then get stuck and suffocate to death.
It happens in survival also.

Confirmed.

Thank you for the change

This is a bug that all animal has. They should finally rewrite the animal code. I can confirm this for horses too.

If they step near a block, instead of stopping or bouncing off of it, they melt into it and die of suffocation damage.
:'(

I tested out 13w22a then spawned a bunch of baby horses from an adult horse and they all started walking down the hill and suffocating.
http://i.imgur.com/m3wBYol.png

Confirmed.
.I also added a few screenshots.

Still happens in 13w25c !

it still happens in 13w25c, it's really annoying, please fix it!

In 13w26a it does it also i first noticed it with the hay block.

I spawned a bunch of horses, including baby horses when I placed a bunch of hay blocks around and the baby horses randomly sufficated and died. Some adult horses were effected but it was mostly the babys. :,(

It's not just horses. That's why I opened another ticket. It also affects all other mobs except players.

So far in one world I've lost three baby horses to this problem. One time it happened on the single hay bale I had near the baby and parents, who were all tied to the same post. Another time I had the parents in a small fenced-in area attached to a house (area was probably 5x5 or so) and the baby, once it spawned, got stuck in the side of the house and died. It's pretty annoying, since Golden Apples aren't super easy to come by/make.

This happens a lot. Now that foals are so expensive, this problem is really devistating. It can be prevented by making sure the foal is fenced on flat ground, but it would be nice to be able to put them in a stable.

Are you serious? Surely this is a bug which should be fixed before release, or maybe you could fix it for a 1.6.2 in a few weeks, but waiting until 1.7 is ridiculous.
Everything 'fixed for the future' will be in the next release version, be that 1.6.2 or 1.7.

Well as long as you fix MC-119 then OK

Also if you spawn a horse in the corner next to a solid block, the horse will start taking damage.

Happens in 1.6.1, lost a high health, high jump, high speed foal this way. and woo!! sudos to me, i searched before i posted this bug.

This still happens in 1.6.2 SMP - I just upgraded my server and first thing that happened was I bumped my horse into a wall and it suffocated to death. The wall was jungle wood planks and the horse was wearing iron armor.

Oh dear still in 1.6.2

I was building a barn for my horse collection. It killed three of my horses and one escaped right through the wall. So, this is definitely not fixed in 1.6.2.
How can we report to Mojang that an issue is still unresolved? Or do we have to create a new bug report?

Can a mod reopen this please?

We're using MC-23962 instead.

Horses still suffocate themselves in walls...

This should be re-opened. I was able to do this in 14w11b

Should be reopened. Using spawn egg in creative mode will sometimes spawn horse partially inside a block and the horse will be stuck and suffocate in 1.8 official release.

I've seen randomly spawned horses suffocate in blocks when there isn't enough space for them, like when a group spawns near a hill; this has been a problem since horses were introduced (and wasn't a problem when using Mo' Creatures" and has continued to be a problem all the way through into 1.8.
Confirmed for 15w46a
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@@unknown: If you can reproduce this with horses that weren't spawned inside a block already, please create a new ticket.
new ticket:
MC-92769

its not "Resolved"
Horses and other Animals can after chunkload stuck in wall and die
(Minecraft 1.6.2 - 1.11.2)

That is a separate issue: MC-2025

This does still happen in 1.19: Two of my skeleton horses suffocated to death after I dismounted them in a too small space.
If this issue is still happening to anyone, please file a new bug report.