Are you interested to know “What is animal husbandry.” If yes, then you are on the right page. In this article Agriculture Review will enlighten you about what is animal husbandry.
Understanding Animal Husbandry is very important because if you are willing to start your own farm or you want to understand and improve animal farm conditions in your country or locality then it will help you to guide people and manage your farm.
Agriculture is a vast subject in which animal husbandry is its branch. So let’s understand this term in detail.
What is animal Husbandry?
Animal husbandry is made up of two words, “Animal” and “Husbandry.” You all must be knowing the meaning of the word animal. Animals are those organism that are multicellular, eukaryotic and are from the animal kingdom.
But not all the animals can be captivated or give us products that can be beneficial directly for the humans. Here come use of the second word “Husbandry.” In simple words husbandry means cultivation, management and production.
Animal Husbandry means rearing, cultivation, management and production of animals that can be domesticated under controlled human captivation to get useful products such as milk, eggs, honey, fur, fibres, meat, etc.
It is a branch of agriculture in which we study all the aspects related to domestication, rearing, selection and breeding of livestock. It also includes day to day care of domesticated animals.
You should not get confused between animal husbandry, livestock and domesticated animals. Let me make it very clear for you. We call livestock to a group of domesticated animals that are raised in a well settled farm to produce milk, meat, eggs, etc.
While all domesticated animals doesn’t need to be called as a livestock, like dog, we don’t domesticate dog for its product, we have dogs in our house for protection and friendly behaviour.
And not all the animals can be domesticated, like we can not domesticate lioness to have milk. It will be quite dangerous. We only domesticate those animals that can easily come under human control and can add some value to our life.
I guess your concepts on animal husbandry, livestock and domestication must have been cleared. If you are still confused about these terms then comment below.
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What is livestock?
Livestock is defined as a group of animals such as cattle, birds, goats, pigs, etc. that can be domesticated under human captivation to get various useful products such as milk, eggs, wool, meat etc.
Majorly the livestock are herbivores such as cows, goats, etc. but few are omnivores too such as pigs.
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