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husbandry

[huhz-buhn-dree] / ˈhʌz bən dri /
NOUN
farming
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NOUN
management of one's private affairs
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Young animals are especially vulnerable as the umbilical cord and wounds from typical husbandry practices such as castration are prime sites for infestation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"Our unwavering commitment remains on providing our animals with the highest levels of welfare and husbandry, ensuring all of their physical, emotional and environmental needs are met," said Wild Planet in the statement.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

As a result, even veterinarians may rely on the husbandry guidelines developed by the community of serious crab keepers.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

But whatever Eliza’s husbandry, and however many trees survived, they took several years to bear fruit, and the first crop might have amounted to a massive 16 oranges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

People accustomed to keeping domesticated animals lacked the conceptual tools to recognize that the Indians were practicing a more distant kind of husbandry of their own.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Protestantism peaceably kept concealed, hurting nobody; wholesomely forwarding the wooden-clock manufacture, and arable or grazier husbandries, of those poor people.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle


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