Agriculture and Farming Atlas

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Animal Husbandry

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Also Known As Livestock farming

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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.

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Animal 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
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Alpaca, Livestock
Cattle, Livestock
Chicken, Livestock
Donkey, Livestock
Duck, Livestock
Goat, Livestock
Goose, Livestock
Horse, Livestock
Llama, Livestock
Pig, Livestock
Rabbit, Livestock
Sheep, Livestock
Turkey, Livestock
Sources
1. Animal Husbandry (Wikipedia)
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1. Animal Husbandry (Wikipedia)
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Robert Bakewell, Agriculturalist (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEarly life section
Quote, Early life section
Bakewell is particularly notable as the first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.
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Selective Breeding (Wikipedia)
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