husbandry
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He said that in the wild, ducks gorge before migration and store fat in their livers and argues that "gavage" -- the process of force-feeding -- is a traditional means of animal husbandry.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Young animals are especially vulnerable as the umbilical cord and wounds from typical husbandry practices such as castration are prime sites for infestation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
As a result, even veterinarians may rely on the husbandry guidelines developed by the community of serious crab keepers.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
But whatever Eliza’s husbandry, and however many trees survived, they took several years to bear fruit, and the first crop might have amounted to a massive 16 oranges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
Though this sequence is the source of Fibonacci’s fame, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci had a much more important purpose than animal husbandry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Protestantism peaceably kept concealed, hurting nobody; wholesomely forwarding the wooden-clock manufacture, and arable or grazier husbandries, of those poor people.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
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