ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Animal husbandry is the dynamic set of relationships between humans and animals, in which qualities considered to be advantageous to humans are improved. The term can refer to the practice of selectively breeding and raising livestock to promote desirable traits in animals for utility, sport, pleasure, or research but also refers to the efficient exploitation of a species in agriculture in a way that benefits all species involved in the relationship. Furthermore, animal husbandry, the controlled cultivation, management and production of domestic animals, including improvement of the qualities considered desirable by humans by means of breeding. Animals are bred and raised for utility (e.g., food, fur), sport, pleasure and research. Likewise, beekeeping and dairy farming. While livestock farming, raising of animals for use or for pleasure. Livestock includes beef and dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, buffalo, and camels; the raising of birds commercially for meat or eggs (i.e., chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and squabs) is treated separately.
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