animal husbandry

NOUN

breeding and caring for farm animals

Synonyms

STRONGEST

farming ranching

WEAK

animal culture animal raising animal rearing livestock farming pasturage stock raising

Example Sentences

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As well as tech, there's also good old-fashioned animal husbandry skills.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

The animal husbandry sector faces a complex set of challenges as a result of various competing interests.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

The people had established a prosperous mixed farming economy, engaging in animal husbandry and hunting the region’s abundant game.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

It also has multiple teams working in parallel on problems of computational biology, cellular engineering, stem cell reprogramming, embryology, protein engineering and animal husbandry, among other focuses.

From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2023

For the most part they were unspeakably boring, all about life in a traditional fishing village and the enduring mysteries of animal husbandry, but one exhibit stood out from the rest.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs