stockbreeders
Livestock farming professionals
Stockbreeders are people who raise livestock for breeding purposes, selecting animals for desirable traits to improve herds or produce offspring for sale.
The term encompasses breeders of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and other farm animals: The stockbreeders association held its annual meeting to discuss genetic advances.
Science of hereditary transmission
- selectionChosen item or items
- crossbreedingMating unlike organisms
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- hybridizationMixing distinct genetic lines
lineage · progeny · bloodline · sire · dam · stud · broodmare · heritability
One who raises bovines
- herdsmanOne tending livestock
- shepherdOne who tends flocks
- pastoralistGrazer of livestock
- droverOne who moves livestock
cowherd · swineherd · goatherd · flock · herd · cattle · sheep · swine
Ranch hands tending herds
- wranglersLivestock handlers on ranches
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- roundupOrganized gathering of scattered things
- corralFenced livestock enclosure
cattle-drive · homestead · prairie · roping · saddle · lariat · chuckwagon · bunkhouse
Coarse livestock nourishment
- pasturageLand for grazing animals
- veterinaryRelating to animal healthcare
- nutritionBodily use of food
- feedlotLivestock fattening enclosure
farrowing · shearing · dairying · milking · grooming · stabling · calving · lambing
Preventing waste or loss
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- landraceRegionally adapted traditional stock
genetics
Science of hereditary transmission
- selectionChosen item or items
- crossbreedingMating unlike organisms
- pedigreeRecord of descent
hybridization · lineage · progeny · bloodline · sire · dam · stud · broodmare · heritability · phenotype
cattleman
One who raises bovines
- herdsmanOne tending livestock
- shepherdOne who tends flocks
- pastoralistGrazer of livestock
drover · cowherd · swineherd · goatherd · flock · herd · cattle · sheep · swine · goats
cowboys
Ranch hands tending herds
- wranglersLivestock handlers on ranches
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- roundupOrganized gathering of scattered things
corral · cattle-drive · homestead · prairie · roping · saddle · lariat · chuckwagon · bunkhouse · mustang
fodder
Coarse livestock nourishment
- pasturageLand for grazing animals
- veterinaryRelating to animal healthcare
- nutritionBodily use of food
feedlot · farrowing · shearing · dairying · milking · grooming · stabling · calving · lambing · weaning
conservation
Preventing waste or loss
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- landraceRegionally adapted traditional stock
- raisersfundraisers, farmers, ranchers, growers, cultivators
stockbreedershorticulturists
Plant cultivation specialists
cultivators · market gardeners · tillers · orchardists · vintners
stockbreedersslaughterers
Those who kill livestock