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husbandry

[huhz-buhn-dree]

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the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.

the science of raising crops or food animals.

careful or thrifty management; frugality, thrift, or conservation.

the management of domestic affairs or of resources generally.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English housebondrie. See husband, -ry

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The long history of animal husbandry has been a fervent quest toward intensified control.

One suggestion for those committed to good animal husbandry is a move into fancy organic meat.

So unless you're practicing animal husbandry on the river, flu risk is minimal.

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The long history of animal husbandry has been a fervent quest toward intensified control.

One suggestion for those committed to good animal husbandry is a move into fancy organic meat.

So unless you're practicing animal husbandry on the river, flu risk is minimal.

The antibiotics are being used in animal husbandry where the problems arise.

Ray and others have proposed that people will create software husbandry.

The husbandry of cattle and other domestic livestock in vast herds should be reduced as a wasteful means of providing food.

Poor farmers lack adequate education and resources for husbandry and protection of their livestock.

Husbandry has been a big problem for research on these insect, which is why almost all of it was done out in the field.

In short, animal husbandry has been turned into animal abuse.

The distinction between this procedure and conventional animal husbandry would be the use of a genetic copy as breeding stock.

Much of it is used to treat diseases spread by industrial husbandry practices, or simply to accelerate growth.

While exotic animal husbandry is typically a sideline or a hobby for the farmer, there is seldom anything dilettantish about.

Behavioral husbandry and operant conditioning allows us to keep the animals mentally exercised as well.

They eagerly eat one another in captivity, and this really complicates husbandry effort.

Carbon sequestration would increase, and the husbandry of water and soil nutrients would become much more efficient.

Plant cultivation and animal husbandry required rigorous and constant, year-round labor.

Zaidlicz agreed to teach the inmates animal husbandry.

Animal husbandry practices subsequently allowed the strain to spread into livestock.

The question is one of husbandry and their fit in the neighborhood”.

Changes in animal husbandry practices and improved hygiene have also proved to be viable alternatives to antibiotic use.

Keeping the herd allows her to hand-breed and select the best of the best, so she can continue her husbandry research.

Students studied animal husbandry and dairy management and worked on the farm.

They are promoting husbandry techniques that allow calves to grow stronger in penned areas before grazing on the range.

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husbandry (ˈhʌzbəndrɪ)

—n
1.	farming, esp when regarded as a science, skill, or art
2.	management of affairs and resources

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husbandry

(hŭz'bən-drē) Pronunciation Key
The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.

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