Question

Write a note on domestic animals according to their utility.

Answer 1

Animal husbandry is a science and an art of management including feeding, breeding, housing, health care of common domestic animals for getting maximum benefits. It includes dairy farm management, poultry farm management, animal breeding, apiculture (rearing of bees), pisciculture (rearing of fishes).
Animal husbandry deals with the scientific management of livestock. It includes various aspects such as feeding, breeding, and control diseases to raise the population of animal livestock. Animal husbandry usually includes animals such as cattle, pig, sheep, poultry, and fish which are useful for humans in various ways. These animals are managed for the production of commercially important products such as milk, meat, wool, egg, honey, silk, etc. The increase in human population has increased the demand of these products. Hence, it is necessary to improve the management of livestock scientifically.