How to Use animal husbandry in a Sentence

animal husbandry

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  • But, this event is much more than a bit of animal husbandry.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The first has to do with the carbon footprint of animal husbandry itself.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Most people in Hasankeyf live off tourism, and some off animal husbandry.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • And behind the scenes, world-class research and animal husbandry is taking place.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2021
  • This has been a problem since the beginning of animal husbandry.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The catteries at the temples of Bastet are our first efforts at raising cats in a manner of animal husbandry.
    — Martin Mejia, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2016
  • Part of the farm’s animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that’s shed from musk ox undercoats each spring.
    — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2020
  • Part of the farm's animal husbandry involves collecting the hair that's shed from musk ox undercoats each spring.
    — Bailey Berg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • Some of the entrants had a lifetime of experience with animal husbandry in the wilderness.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • To watch the youngsters aged 7- to 18-years-old hold the leads, use their hips to persuade a heifer to move or stop, hold its dewlap for control, keep its front feet in line, or its back legs apart, is a study in animal husbandry.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The Dnipro area eventually learned the ways of pottery, animal husbandry and farming, as well as modern burials.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Farmer Kurt Brunner practices the kind of animal husbandry that the proposal’s organizers’ would like to see.
    — Lisa Abend/zurich, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Lucas believed the Humane Society’s heavy support of the bill was an attempt to stop animal husbandry.
    — Britta Lokting, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Five young people, ages 16 to 20, and two leaders spend every other week learning about animal husbandry.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2021
  • From there, techniques for crop farming and animal husbandry slowly spread westward across the Mediterranean world and into Europe.
    — Manuel Jaén, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • As with their rural counterparts, the Vincent students have found that raising and showing livestock is about much more than animal husbandry.
    — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2019
  • A few hundred shepherds and cowboys, called csikós, still roam the wavy grass, giving families a rare look at centuries-old animal husbandry traditions.
    — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Damselfish cultivate gardens of algae, and some ants have even developed a form of animal husbandry that includes shepherding stocks of aphids and mealy bugs.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
  • Researchers agree farming and animal husbandry spread northwest through Europe from the Fertile Crescent.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
  • 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.
    — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But despite their shared interest in zoology and animal husbandry, the brothers’ paths diverged greatly as the Nazis rose to power.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The program will teach everything from animal husbandry to meat processing.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
  • Getting the kids into animal husbandry instead of college.
    — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
  • 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.
    — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Her mother, Elizabeth Browning, studied animal husbandry at Cornell and taught high school Latin.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
  • There is no doubt that agriculture and animal husbandry has provided much more, and often better, products on a regular basis.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Approximations are still required to get a number that’s useful to anyone in animal husbandry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Adopt-a-Lot Program, feeding neighbors in South Baltimore, teaching students about animal husbandry and hosting more than 200 native bats.
    — Stephanie García, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2021
  • This picture of homelife acts as a quick list of the work that was expected of women: animal husbandry, baking and cooking, and child care were all expressly work for women and ones which a complaining husband would never deign to assist.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The former were hunter-gatherers who tended to rely upon marine resources, while the latter were agriculturalists who engaged in a great deal of animal husbandry.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2011

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