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I showed the stream on the Valley camera earlier, to show how much rain we have been getting. We had a bit of a flood in one of the outbuildings. The forecast for tonight is not very promising. Heavy rain and severe gales they reckon.

Elsie emailed me this as below today. About a Horse that died on whilst being operated on with a Twisted Gut. The first signs was when the Horse showed sign of a belly ache (colic) If you remember this was the first signs of a problems that we had with Woody. There are various reason for Horses to have belly aches. Impaction that is a mass of food getting blocked in the intestine, Spasmodic that is the intestine contracting and Gas is a build up of gas in the intestine. These are fairly easy to cure, if they don’t cure them selves, very quickly. Others that need treatment and can be life threatening are Enteritis, where the large or small or both inflame and the worse type is what Major died of. This is when the gut twists and nothing can pass through. In most cases it needs an operation to cure the Horse . Although I have seen a Veterinary who once rolled a Horse on its back from side to side, untwisting the gut. A lot of Horses that need an operation don’t survive. If a Horse paws the ground, kicks at its belly, repeatedly gets up and down, looking behind themselves and standing stretched out, there is a possibility of a belly ache. (colic) There is a photo of Major on the photo page, not a very good one.

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One of the working shire horses, that are such a popular attraction at Bradford Industrial Museum, has died.
Major joined the Horses at Work team two years ago and, after an initial training period, had started to become a firm favourite among both staff and visitors.
While at the museum he not only provided rides to eager visitors, but worked in Bradford and Keighley on plant watering duties and appeared at the Great Yorkshire Show.
staff called out a vet as Major was suffering from what was thought to be a bout of colic.
This was later diagnosed as a twisted gut and he was taken to a clinic for further treatment. Despite the veterinary surgeon’s best efforts, Major died during the operation intended to save his life.
He worked alongside three other horses, Murdoch – who was one of two brothers named by Telegraph & Argus readers in 2005 – Noble and D’Arcy.
Five days a week visitors can get the chance to be introduced
to the museum horses, both old and new, at 11.15am from Tuesday to Saturday. And at 1.30pm on each of these days and on Sundays, the horses are available for horse-drawn rides. Noble and Murdoch have become old favourites at the museum, but as their training reaches a conclusion, D’Arcy will begin to share the workload.
The horses programme of work changes daily and may include work in singles or pairs, harrowing, long-reining, tram training or pulling the plant watering carts that are used in the centre of Bradford and Keighley.
Bradford Council is one of the few local authorities to still keep and employ its own horses.

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