- Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.
- Animal husbandry deals with the care and breeding of livestock like buffaloes, cows, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, camels, goats etc.
- Extended form of animal husbandry is poultry farming and fisheries.
- Fisheries include rearing, catching, selling, etc., of fish, molluscs (shell-fish) and crustaceans.
- Poultry farming deals with domesticated fowl (birds) used for food or for their eggs.

Fig. animal husbandry