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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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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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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