A Field Guide to Cows : How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds

John Pukite
Penguin Publishing Group
9780140273885
0-14-027388-3

In A Field Guide to Cows, John Pukite provides all the facts-so even the novice can identify and get to know America's fifty-two breeds of cattle. Every entry in this entertaining yet completely usable.

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book features an illustration that highlights each breed's most easily identifiable traits, such as coloration pattern and body shape. The book includes a checklist of breeds so the die-hard cow watcher can keep track of sightings, a list of essential garb and gear for cow watching, a glossary of terms, a listing of breeder associations, and more. Fascinating cow trivia is interspersed throughout. Informative, amazing, and amusing, A Field Guide to Cows is the indispensable companion for would-be cow tippers, farmers, city folk, agriculturalists, interstate drivers, 4-H'ers, vacationing families, and everyone who likes to moo at cows.Cow FactsThere are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of milkOld cows in India have their own nursing homesFrom 1866 to 1895 cowboys drove about 10,000,000 cattle out of Texas