The keeping and breeding of farm animals: feeding, housing, health and, above all, the slow generational work of selective breeding that turned the aurochs into dairy cattle and the jungle fowl into the laying hen. Every livestock entity in this atlas sits under it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionAnimal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products, including day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. 1 Connections
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Source Robert Bakewell, Agriculturalist (Wikipedia)
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Source Selective Breeding (Wikipedia)
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1. Animal Husbandry (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead sectionQuote, Lead section
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with the human practices of raising captive or domesticated animals for harvesting valuable animal products or to train animals to provide labour or services.
Robert Bakewell, Agriculturalist (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEarly life sectionQuote, Early life section
Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.
Selective Breeding (Wikipedia)
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