The secret life of cows
By: Rosamund Young
Edition: [Revised edition].
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780525557319
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Cattle; Organic farming; Behavior; Domestic animals
Description: The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 139).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A little bit about ingenuity; title: Alice and Jim; title: mothers and daughters; title: Jake; title: Unusual behaviour needs investigating; title: A little bit on names and more on grieving; title: A brief note about sleep; title: Different kinds of mooing; title: Cows make good decisions; title: Bovine friendships are seldom casual; title: But bulls are a completely different kettle of fish; title: Fat Hat II; title: Cows have preferences; title: Eye contact; title: Cows remember; title: A little bit about horses; title: A digression on sheep, and pigs and hens; title: Difficult calvings : nows are never wrong; title: Dizzy and her family; title: Something happens here every day ...; title: Physical communication; title: Notes on grooming; title: A word about milk; title: Calf games; title: Amelia; title: Hens like playing; title: There's another side to hens; title: Amelia again; title: A brief note on birds; title: Self-medication; title: Dorothy and her daughter, Little Dorothy; title: Twenty things you ought to know about cows; title: Twenty things you ought to know about hens; title: Twenty things you ought to know about sheep; title: Twenty things you ought to know about pigs.