husbandry

Preposition: of

• animal: Therefore, these provisions will not prevent children owning, keeping or looking after pets, or actively learning about the husbandry of animals.

Converse of object

• improve: Animal breeding: In the future it may be possible to breed animals which are disease resistant, thereby improving animal husbandry.

Adjective modifier

• animal: Explain the role of pastures for animal husbandry, in your locality.
• pastoral: The growth of pastoral husbandry was favored also by the occupation of domain-land.
• improved: In a general sense, improved understanding will lead naturally on to potential control methods such as drugs, vaccines and improved animal husbandry.
• organic: UKROFS ( 2000 ) permits mineral supplementation of animals only where trace element requirements cannot be met by the practice of organic husbandry.
• intensive: Before all this intensive animal husbandry, diseases were present, but were easily spotted and could be dealt with.
• careful: Even with the most careful husbandry, inputs will increasingly be essential.

Modifies a noun

• practice: However, good husbandry practice can significantly reduce the number of lambs lost.
• technique: Crop husbandry techniques have improved significantly resulting in a dramatic increase in yield.
• task: Prepare a timetable of husbandry tasks from hatching to maturity for a brooding fowl.
• method: She's glad of an opportunity to keep up with the latest husbandry methods.
• condition: Project results should help in matching breeds and diets for particular disease and husbandry conditions.
• procedure: Good animal husbandry procedures will further reduce the chances of infections.

Noun used with modifier

• reindeer: The Saami people's rights to land and water for reindeer husbandry, and for hunting and fishing are regulated by law.
• cattle: The other side of the coin is cattle husbandry.
• animal: We welcome this change in favor of good animal husbandry.
• livestock: However, Indians were reluctant to adopt English practices of livestock husbandry.
• goat: Poor farmers are encouraged to form self-help groups and receive training in goat husbandry.
• poultry: As can be seen from the distribution of animals on organic farms, a concentration process has taken place in pig and poultry husbandry.