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animal husbandry

Also known as animal management, animal culture, animal farming, animal agriculture

branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fiber, milk, or other products

AI overview

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

50,374 papers

Revolutionizing animal husbandry: Breakthroughs in gene editing delivery systems.ReviewGene · 2025Liu Y, Bai X, Feng X et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.149044
Animal husbandry and experimental design.ReviewILAR journal · 2014Nevalainen TDOI: 10.1093/ilar/ilu035
Potential Applications of Non-thermal Plasma in Animal Husbandry to Improve Infrastructure.ReviewIn vivo (Athens, Greece) · 2019Kwon T, Chandimali N, Lee DH et al.DOI: 10.21873/invivo.11569
Selected aspects of animal husbandry and good laboratory practices.ReviewClinical toxicology · 1979Fox JDOI: 10.3109/15563657908989908
Economic Analysis of Animal Husbandry Based on System Dynamics.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Wang L, Tan HDOI: 10.1155/2022/5641384
Dairy nutrition.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice · 2014Van Saun RJDOI: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2014.08.004
The paradox of modern animal husbandry and lameness.Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) · 2008Döpfer D, Bonino Morlán JDOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2007.02.013
Reproducibility and replicability in zebrafish behavioural neuroscience research: The importance of animal-human interaction and temporal aspects of husbandry conditions.ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Tsang B, Gerlai RDOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106712

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Part of: agriculture
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harvested organism(s): livestock
Commons category: Animal husbandry
topic's main category: Category:Animal husbandry
by-product: manure
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001248

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Encyclopedic overview

Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States

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.

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