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.
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The Family Cow
by Dirk van Loon.
262 pages; 6" x 9"; Paperback.
More than 52,000 copies sold.
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.
Practical, fully-illustrated chapters with accurate information on buying, behavior, nutrition, breeds, handling, feeding, milking, healthcare, calving, and growing feed crops.
from Storey Publishing whose mission is to publish practical information that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment.
Chapters:
1 How Now, (One brown cow)?
2 A History of Cattle
3 Behaving herself
4 Buying a cow
5 Handling and Grooming Cows
6 Buildings, Staking, Fencing
7 The Plants Cows Eat
8 Taking it all In
9 A Choice of Foods
10 Measuring Feed Ingredients
11 Grass, Hay and Concentrates - a basic diet
12 Shaving the Food Budget
13 Milk and Milking
14 Milk and the Home Dairy
15 Breeding and Heat Periods
16 Calving and Calf Feed
17 Health
18 Keeping the Land
19 Making and Storing Hay and Roots
- One More Thing (a good story)
Testimonials:
"I love the informative, down-to-earth advice that 'The Family Cow' offers. S.R. MI
"Wonderfully informative and well organized. I enjoyed the writing style of Dirk van Loon immensely. Can't wait to put those ideas to use when buying and keeping a cow a few years down the road. Thanks for a great book." T.R. TX
"We found this book to be very informative and easily understood. We are just starting out and found it extremely helpful in many of our situations. Thank you and keep up the good work." L.R. KS
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