animal husbandry
branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fiber, milk, or other products
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Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture that focuses on raising animals like cattle, sheep, and chickens for products such as meat, milk, fiber, and eggs. It matters because it provides essential food and materials that people depend on in their daily lives.
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Research
50,349 papers- Revolutionizing animal husbandry: Breakthroughs in gene editing delivery systems.Gene · 2025
- Animal husbandry and experimental design.ILAR journal · 2014
- Potential Applications of Non-thermal Plasma in Animal Husbandry to Improve Infrastructure.In vivo (Athens, Greece) · 2019
- Selected aspects of animal husbandry and good laboratory practices.Clinical toxicology · 1979
- Economic Analysis of Animal Husbandry Based on System Dynamics.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022
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Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when animals were first domesticated around 13,000 BC, before the cultivation of the first crops. In early civilisations like ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were being raised on farms.