The secret life of cows
"The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals." --
| Main Author: | Young, Rosamund (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Bennett, Alan, 1934- (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | Reissued [updated] edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Alan Bennett
- A little bit about ingenuity
- Alice and Jim
- Mothers and daughters
- Jake
- Unusual behaviour needs investigating
- A little bit on names and more on grieving
- A brief note about sleep
- Different kinds of mooing
- Cows make good decisions
- Bovine friendships are seldom casual
- But bulls are a completely different kettle of fish
- Fat Hat II
- Cows have preferences
- Eye contact
- Cows remember
- A little bit about horses
- A digression on sheep, and pigs and hens
- Difficult calvings
- cows are never wrong
- Dizzy and her family
- Something happens here every day
- Physical communication
- Notes on grooming
- A word about milk
- Calf games
- Amelia
- Hens like playing
- There's another side to hens
- Amelia again
- A brief note on birds
- Self-medication
- Dorothy and her daughter, Little Dorothy
- Twenty things you ought to know about cows
- Twenty things you ought to know about hens
- Twenty things you ought to know about sheep
- Twenty things you ought to know about pigs
- Kite's Nest Farm.