The secret life of cows / Rosamund Young.

Includes bibliographical references (page 139).

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 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.

The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals.