Bibliograph

The Secret Life of Cows, Rosamund Young

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The Secret Life of Cows, Rosamund Young

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 139)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Secret Life of Cows

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1038520677

Responsibility statement

Rosamund Young

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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