The secret life of cows / Rosamund Young.
The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525557319 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xvi, 139 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 calving: 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 about 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. |
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Subject: | Cattle. Cattle > Behavior. Organic farming. |
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Legislative Library, Vaughan Street | SF 208 You (Text) | 36970100190893 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |