What sort of things would fit under the heading "animal husbandry"?

Question

eg: breeding and what other things?
thanks heaps!

Answer 1

Animal Husbandry, breeding, feeding, and management of animals, or livestock, for the production of food, fiber, work, and pleasure. Modern methods concentrate on one type of animal in large, efficient farming units that generate animal products at the highest rate of return for investment.

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Answer 2

husbandry of animals would fall under things like breeding chickens to make them larger... by mixing many types of bloodlines to create a new bloodline, with all the desirable characteristics of a large chicken. White people did basically the same thing with black people in the old slave days... We made them larger and stronger to increase the work they could do.

Husbandry can also work in reverse. Meaning, to take an animal of several bloodlines... a "mutt", and to breed it within it's own bloodlines, and after many generations of proper breeding, the animal will possess only dominant genes... That doesn't necessarily make an animal a thoroughbred, as in the true sense of the word, they do not exist anymore. (nobody is 100 percent scottish, and no dog is 100 percent pit bull)

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry

I always think if tea cup dogs when I hear this term,
but according to this article, livestock is the major use for these techniques, because cattle are hard to breed period, much less selectively breed.

Answer 4

If your husband acts like an az, or makes a monkey out of himself.

Answer 5

feeding, grooming, identifying and treating health issues, nutrition.