The Secret Life of Cows

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Call Number: 636.2 Yo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Mammals
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	636.2 Yo	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Mammals	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"This is a reissued edition of my book so I have had the opportunity to update some of the material."--Page [vii].
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.
"The author distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals." -- (Source of summary not specified)

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