Keeping a Family Cow The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers, 3rd Edition

Name: Keeping a Family Cow The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers, 3rd Edition
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ISBN: 9781603584784

ISBN-10: 1603584781

ISBN-13: 9781603584784

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Joann S. Grohman

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 10/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Home food production has been Joann Grohman's lifelong enthusiasm. She started milking cows in 1975 and can no longer imagine life without one. She declares that health and happiness can't be teased apart and that your dairy cow supports both. Joann finds that the prevailing beliefs about farming and nutrition-which can't be teased apart either-have been generated by people who have never gotten their hands dirty. Very little of what they teach would survive a year on the farm. Real farming and real food leave you feeling there is a tomorrow. "In the morning your cow will be waiting."



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



A Brief History of Dairying



What Makes Cows So Important?



Milking Your Cow



Making Butter, Yogurt, and Cheese



Drying Off and Milk Fever Prevention Diet



Calving



The Calf



Breeding



Feeding Your Cow



Your Organic Cow



Fencing



Making Hay



Pasture Management



Housing, Water Systems, and Supplies



Treating Milk Fever



Diseases and Disorders



Safety around Your Cow



Cattle Breeds



Your Cow Economy


Appendix: Dairy Cow Anatomy


Sources


Bibliography


Index