Table of Contents
Foreword Alan Bennett xix
Introduction 1
A little bit about ingenuity 24
Alice and Jim 25
Mothers and daughters 28
Jake 33
Unusual behaviour needs investigating 39
A little bit on names and more on grieving 40
A brief note about sleep 44
Different kinds of mooing 49
Cows make good decisions 52
Bovine friendships are seldom casual 59
But bulls are a completely different kettle of fish 63
Fat Hat II 67
Cows have preferences 76
Eye contact 78
Cows remember 80
A little bit about horses 81
A digression on sheep, and pigs and hens 81
Difficult carvings - cows are never wrong 89
Dizzy and her family 91
Something happens here every day… 93
Physical communication 96
Notes on grooming 97
A word about milk 100
Calf games 100
Amelia 102
Hens like playing 106
There's another side to hens 107
Amelia again 112
A brief note on birds 114
Self-medication 116
Dorothy and her daughter, Little Dorothy 122
Twenty things you ought to know about cows 129
Twenty things you ought to know about hens 130
Twenty things you ought to know about sheep 131
Twenty things you ought to know about pigs 133
Kite's Nest Farm 135
Bibliography 139