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Title:
The secret life of cows
Author:
Young, Rosamund, author.
ISBN:
9780525557319
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York :

Penguin Press,

2018.

©2017
Physical Description:
xvi, 139 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by Farming Books & Videos Ltd. ; later published by Faber & Faber Limited"--title page verso.
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals.
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