Definition of animal husbandry
: a branch of agriculture concerned with the production and care of domestic animals
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Greg Whittaker, now Moody Gardens’ animal husbandry manager, got his start in the professional animal care field at Sea-Arama in 1988 while still a student at Texas A&M on the island.
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The program will teach everything from animal husbandry to meat processing.
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Part of the farm's animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that's shed from musk ox undercoats each spring.
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The switch from hunting and gathering and nomadism to settled agriculture and animal husbandry seems to have brought about a profound change in people’s treatment of animals.
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She seemed taken with the two Americans who were completely ignorant of the difference between Texel and any other kind of sheep, and enjoyed explaining aspects of animal husbandry to us.
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She is fascinated by the characteristics and variations that selective breeding and animal husbandry have produced in her chickens; her large-format prints are designed to render the birds faithfully in detail.
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Winners were determined after a blind tasting of entries that met standards for environmentally sound agriculture practices, good animal husbandry, sourcing transparency and responsible relationships throughout the supply chain.
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The monks operate an agriculture and animal husbandry school, and design and build koras, a type of West African harp that is played during a transcendent daily musical mass.
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First Known Use of animal husbandry
1835
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Defined for English Language Learners
animal husbandry
Definition of animal husbandry for English Language Learners
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: a kind of farming in which people raise animals for meat, milk, eggs, etc.
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