livestock raising
Raising farm animals
Livestock raising is the practice of breeding and caring for domesticated animals—cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, poultry—for food, fiber, or labor.
The term emphasizes the ongoing work of animal husbandry rather than a single transaction: Her family has been in livestock raising for four generations.
Distinguished from ranching mainly by scale and method.
- alpacasSouth American wool animals
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- cattle driveMoving herd to market
- buffaloesLarge wild cattle
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
cattle · milking machines · milk · grass fed · free range · husbandry · sheep · llamas · intensive farming · factory farm · pigs · poultry · dairy farming · feedlots · feed lot · meat · wool · manure
- farming typesfarming, ranching, dairy farming, organic farming, subsistence farming
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- homesteadinghomesteading, self-sufficiency, off-grid living, off-grid, chicken coop
- subsistence farminghoe, seed saving, seeds, crops, family plots
- traditional economiessubsistence farming, barter, bartering, gift economy, communal ownership
- land managementparcels, boundaries, surveying, zoning, land surveys
livestock raisingcrop cultivation
Growing food plants deliberately
crop farming · horticulture · grain farming · viticulture · floriculture
livestock raisingrewilding
Restoring natural ecosystems
wildlife conservation · habitat preservation · nature preservation · animal liberation · land conservation