"Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products."
Rearing of farm animals for milk, meat, wool or other products, including selection, breeding, nutrition, housing, health, and care management.
Animal Nutrition: Understanding the nutritional requirements of animals and their physiology.
Animal Health: Understanding the health and welfare of animals, disease prevention, and treatment.
Animal Breeding: Understanding genetics, breeding systems, and selection criteria for improving animal performance.
Animal Behavior and Management: Understanding animal behavior and how to manage animals effectively.
Animal Reproductive Physiology: Understanding reproductive systems, mating and breeding management, and reproductive technologies.
Animal Housing and Environment: Understanding the environmental needs of animals, housing design, and ventilation systems.
Forage Production and Management: Understanding forage production, quality, utilization, and management for grazing animals.
Livestock Marketing and Economics: Understanding market structures, price analysis, and economic principles for livestock production.
Livestock Production Systems: Understanding the different production systems, including intensive, extensive, and alternative livestock production systems.
Animal Welfare and Ethics: Understanding the ethical principles, laws, and regulations relating to animal welfare.
Livestock Business Management: Understanding business management principles, financial management, record-keeping, and analysis in livestock production.
Food Safety and Quality Assurance: Understanding regulations, certification, and quality assurance programs relating to animal product production.
Animal Waste Management: Understanding management strategies for manure disposal, nutrient management, and environmental protection.
Meat Science and Technology: Understanding meat quality, processing, and preservation, meat marketing, and consumer preferences.
Poultry Management: Understanding the principles of poultry production, including breeding, nutrition, health, processing, and marketing.
Dairy Science and Technology: Understanding the principles of dairy production, including milk production, quality, processing, and marketing.
Aquaculture: Understanding the principles of aquatic animal farming, including production systems, fish nutrition, disease management, and breeding.
Sheep and Goat Management: Understanding the principles of sheep and goat production, including breeds, nutrition, health, and marketing.
Livestock Production: This involves the management of animals such as cattle, pigs, poultry, and sheep for their meat, milk, eggs, and other products.
Dairy Farming: This is the cultivation of dairy animals such as cows, sheep, and goats for their milk and milk-based products.
Poultry Farming: This includes raising chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other fowl for their meat and eggs.
Aquaculture: This involves the breeding and cultivation of aquatic animals such as fish, shellfish, and other marine life.
Beekeeping: This is the art of cultivating bees and harvesting their honey, royal jelly, and beeswax.
Sericulture: This is the art of rearing silkworms for the production of silk.
Vermiculture: This involves the breeding and cultivation of worms for composting, soil enhancement, and animal feed.
Apiculture: This involves the management of honeybees for their honey and other products.
Equine Husbandry: This deals with the management of horses, donkeys, and other equines for their use in recreation, transportation, and agriculture.
Game Farming: This entails breeding and raising wild animals such as deer, pheasants, and wild boars for recreational hunting and other purposes.
Pig Farming: This involves the management of pigs for their meat and other products.
Sheep Farming: This entails the breeding and management of sheep for their meat, milk, wool, and other products.
Goat Farming: This is the cultivation of goats for their meat, milk, wool, and other products.
Fish Farming: This is the breeding and cultivation of fish for their meat and other products.
Rabbit Farming: This involves the management of rabbits for their meat, fur, and other products.
Alpaca Farming: This is the rearing of alpacas for their wool and other products.
Camelid Farming: This involves the breeding and cultivation of camels, llamas, and other similar animals for their milk, wool, and transportation.
Cattle Farming: This involves the management of cows for their meat, milk, and other products.
Deer Farming: This is the cultivation of deer for their antlers, meat, and other products.
Ostrich Farming: This involves the management of ostriches for their meat, eggs, and other products.
"It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock."
"Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when animals were first domesticated, from around 13,000 BC onwards, predating farming of the first crops."
"Cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were being raised on farms."
"Major changes took place in the Columbian exchange when Old World livestock were brought to the New World."
"Livestock breeds like the Dishley Longhorn cattle and Lincoln Longwool sheep were rapidly improved by agriculturalists, such as Robert Bakewell, to yield more meat, milk, and wool."
"A wide range of other species, such as horse, water buffalo, llama, rabbit, and guinea pig, are used as livestock in some parts of the world."
"Insect farming, as well as aquaculture of fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, is widespread."
"Modern animal husbandry relies on production systems adapted to the type of land available."
"Subsistence farming is being superseded by intensive animal farming in the more developed parts of the world."
"Beef cattle are kept in high-density feedlots."
"Thousands of chickens may be raised in broiler houses or batteries."
"On poorer soil, such as in uplands, animals are often kept more extensively and may be allowed to roam widely, foraging for themselves."
"Most livestock are herbivores."
"Pigs and chickens are omnivores."
"Ruminants like cattle and sheep are adapted to feed on grass."
"They can forage outdoors or may be fed entirely or in part on rations richer in energy and protein, such as pelleted cereals."
"Pigs and poultry cannot digest the cellulose in forage."
"They require other high-protein foods."
"Animal husbandry is concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products."