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The Secret Life of Cows / Rosamund Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Rosamund, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cattle.
- Cattle--Behavior.
- Organic farming.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 139 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Reissued [updated] edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "This is a reissued edition of my book so I have had the opportunity to update some of the material."--Page [vii].
- Includes bibliographical references (page 139).
- ISBN:
- 9780525557319
- 0525557318
- OCLC:
- 1038520677
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