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Storey’s Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs
Storey’s Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs by Carol Ekarius, 5/5
High-quality photographs accompany informative text about 163 different livestock breeds in this excellent reference book. It provides a good jumping-off point for further research into specific breeds and I appreciated the extra information the author provides about the history of livestock domestication and the science of breed development.
Why I read it: Still on a quest to identify every cow I pass by.
Exercise #6 (page 95)
This exercise was to write some anapaestic hexameters describing how to get to your house (changed to protect my privacy) and some dactylic pentameter on the subject of cows (four dactyls and a spondee, in the classical manner), all in 40 minutes.
If you want to come visit us, start out by
finding I5 and then take
Exit two-hundred four and go east ’til
the light with a Payless beside.
Take a turn to the left and you’ll
almost be there if you take the
third right.
As you keep going straight keep in
mind we’re the third cul-de-sac to
the right.
Cows are strange animals; I can’t decide
if they look nice.
Eyes that are gentle and soft make me
certain that “yes” is
Quite the right answer until a long tongue
is then stuck out,
Licking what shouldn’t be licked, like
its nostrils. It’s so gross.
OmniRambles 