This is the basic book for anyone who decides to keep a cow. Fully-illustrated chapters with accurate information on buying, behavior, nutrition, breeds, handling, feeding, milking, health care, calving, and growing feed crops.
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This is the basic book for anyone who decides to keep a cow. Fully-illustrated chapters with accurate information on buying, behavior, nutrition, breeds, handling, feeding, milking, health care, calving, and growing feed crops.
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utilizing manure.
About the Author
Author Dirk van Loon has written two Storey books, The Family Cow and Small-Scale Pig Raising. He publishes a monthly newspaper for small-scale rural producers called Rural Delivery. Dirk is a graduate of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University and now lives in Nova Scotia.
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This is the basic book -- yet with all the essential details -- for the family that decides to keep a cow for all the benefits she can provide. Learn first the costs, the gains, what she gives and takes. There are practical, fully illustrated chapters that include: - The history and behavior of the cow. - Nutritional needs, from grass to milk. - Buying a cow -- the sources, breeds and factors to consider. - Handling techniques, housing and fencing. - Feeds and feeding -- cow and calf. - Milking and uses of milk. - Health and diseases, breeding and calving. - Growing feed crops, use of manure. The Family Cow is complete with data charts and tables, a glossary of agricultural terms, and source lists of books and equipment.
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