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Definitions for Livestock
ˈlaɪvˌstɒklive·stock

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. livestock, stock, farm animalnoun

    any animals kept for use or profit

Wiktionary

  1. livestocknoun

    Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

Wikipedia

  1. Livestock

    Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals who are raised for consumption, and sometimes used to refer solely to farmed ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. Horses are considered livestock in the United States. The USDA classifies pork, veal, beef, and lamb (mutton) as livestock, and all livestock as red meat. Poultry and fish are not included in the category. The latter is likely due to the fact that fish products are not governed by the USDA, but by the FDA. The breeding, maintenance, slaughter and general subjugation of livestock, called animal husbandry, is a part of modern agriculture and has been practiced in many cultures since humanity's transition to farming from hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Animal husbandry practices have varied widely across cultures and time periods. It continues to play a major economic and cultural role in numerous communities. Livestock farming practices have largely shifted to intensive animal farming. Intensive animal farming increases the yield of the various commercial outputs, but also negatively impacts animal welfare, the environment, and public health. In particular, beef, dairy and sheep are an outsized source of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

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  1. livestock

    Livestock refers to domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber, or labor. This can include animals like cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, horses, ducks, and bees. The raising of livestock is part of the practice of animal husbandry.

Wikidata

  1. Livestock

    Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor. This article does not discuss poultry or farmed fish, although these, especially poultry, are commonly included within the meaning of "livestock". Livestock are generally raised for profit. Raising animals is a component of modern agriculture. It has been practiced in many cultures since the transition to farming from hunter-gather lifestyles.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Livestock in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Livestock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Livestock in a Sentence

  1. Tongai Huni:

    Even now we have livestock we keep in the rural areas because of him, so it's painful to lose our father, our grandfather who helped us to learn and go to school.

  2. Avinash Kar:

    Solving antibiotic resistance will require ending the rampant overuse of these drugs in livestock. Until then, these lifesaving drugs will increasingly fail when sick people need them—and, as CDC recognized, 'everyone is at risk,'.

  3. Ndiba Ngolicha:

    It has only rained for two days within the year but we have not lost a single cow to drought or lack of pasture. Our biggest challenge remains livestock diseases.

  4. Sherry Rehman:

    People are adrift, livestock and crops are damaged.

  5. Akram Hussain:

    When the livestock comes down for the winter what are we going to feed them? If our livestock goes, our culture goes.

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