Keeping a Family Cow

Keeping a Family Cow

Author: Joann S. Grohman

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 160358479X

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The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. She will give you fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheese, build human health and happiness, and even turn a profit for homesteaders and small farmers who seek to offer her bounty to the local market or neighborhood. She will provide rich manure for your garden or land, and will enrich the quality of your life as you benefit from the resources of the natural world. Quite simply, the family that keeps a cow is a healthy family. Originally published in the early 1970s as The Cow Economy and reprinted many times over, Keeping a Family Cow has launched thousands of holistic small-scale dairy farmers and families raising healthy cows in accordance with their true nature. The book offers answers to frequently asked questions like, 'Should I get a cow?' and 'How Much Space do I need?' in addition to extensive information on: • The health benefits of untreated milk; • How to milk a cow effectively and with ease; • Choosing your dairy breed; • Drying off your cow; • Details on calving and breeding; • The importance of hay quality and how to properly feed your cow; • Fencing and pasture management; • Housing, water systems, and other supplies; • Treating milk fever and other diseases and disorders; • Making butter, yogurt, and cheese, and, of course . . . • . . . Everything else the conventional dairy industry doesn’t tell us! Now revised and updated to incorporate new information on the raw milk debate, the conversation about A1 vs. A2 milk, fully grassfed dairies, more practical advice for everyday chores, and updated procedures for cow emergencies. Keeping a Family Cow has not only stood the test of time, it still remains the go-to inspirational manual for raising a family milk cow nearly forty years after its first publication. Joann Grohman has a lifetime of practical experience that has been bound into this one volume and presented in the spirit of fun and learning.


Cows

Cows

Author: Matthew Stokoe

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-31

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780987453662

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Twenty-five-year-old Steven faces a bleak life with a sadistic mother and a job at a slaughterhouse where he is confronted with extreme violence and death.


Etre the Cow

Etre the Cow

Author: Dr. Sean Kenniff

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 075731502X

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Describes, in a completely convincing way, the drab, sometimes terrifying world of a modern "farm" seen through the eyes of a bull.


The Cow Book

The Cow Book

Author: John Connell

Publisher: Granta Books

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1783784199

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Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanized herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the animals he tends, and with his father.


The Cows

The Cows

Author: Lydia Davis

Publisher: Sarabande Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1932511938

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With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail.


Snack Time for Cow

Snack Time for Cow

Author: Michael Dahl

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1404864962

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Baby Cow enjoys a variety of snacks throughout the day, before settling down to dream about more tasty treats.


The Cow with Ear Tag #1389

The Cow with Ear Tag #1389

Author: Kathryn Gillespie

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 022658285X

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To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals—animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly benign practice of raising animals for milk is just one link in a chain that affects livestock across the agricultural spectrum. Gillespie takes readers to farms, auction yards, slaughterhouses, and even rendering plants to show how living cows become food. The result is an empathetic look at cows and our relationship with them, one that makes both their lives and their suffering real.


Mycorrhizal Planet

Mycorrhizal Planet

Author: Michael Phillips

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 160358658X

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In Mycorrhizal Planet, Michael Phillips offers new insights into the invisible world beneath our feet, explaining the crucial, symbiotic role that fungi play in everything from healthy plants to healthy soils to a healthy planet.--COVER.


If at All Possible, Involve a Cow

If at All Possible, Involve a Cow

Author: Neil Steinberg

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9780312078102

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A humorous collection of the most clever college pranks ever committed describes how Harvard students hoisted the Soviet flag over the U.S. Supreme Court building during the Red Scare and other pranks and includes documentary photographs. Original.


Adventures Of Cow

Adventures Of Cow

Author:

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1582461392

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A lost and somewhat confused toy cow has many grand adventures before finding her way home, where she decides to write a book.