Foreword / by Alan Bennett

A little bit about ingenuity

Alice and Jim

Mothers and daughters

Jake

Unusual behaviour needs investigating

A little bit on names and more on grieving

A brief note about sleep

Different kinds of mooing

Cows make good decisions

Bovine friendships are seldom casual

But bulls are a completely different kettle of fish

Fat Hat II

Cows have preferences

Eye contact

Cows remember

A little bit about horses

A digression on sheep, and pigs and hens

Difficult calvings

cows are never wrong

Dizzy and her family

Something happens here every day

Physical communication

Notes on grooming

A word about milk

Calf games

Amelia

Hens like playing

There's another side to hens

Amelia again

A brief note on birds

Self-medication

Dorothy and her daughter, Little Dorothy

Twenty things you ought to know about cows

Twenty things you ought to know about hens

Twenty things you ought to know about sheep

Twenty things you ought to know about pigs

Kite's Nest Farm.