animal husbandry

Examples of animal husbandry in the following topics:

• German Migration

  • German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.

• The Middle Classes

  • When sons married, fathers gave them gifts of land, livestock, or farming equipment; daughters received household goods, farm animals, and/or cash.
  • For instance, German immigrants were renowned for their skill with animal husbandry, and unlike women in New England, women in German immigrant communities worked in the fields.

• Women and the Household

  • The typical woman in colonial America was expected to run a household and attend to domestic duties such as spinning, sewing, preserving food, animal husbandry, cooking, and cleaning while raising children.

• The Black Death

  • There was a shift from grain farming to animal husbandry.
  • Grain farming was very labor-intensive, but animal husbandry needed only a shepherd, a few dogs, and pastureland.

• America and WWI

  • In 1914, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which created the Cooperative Extension Service in order to develop more effective agricultural and animal husbandry classes, programs, and use of land grant institutions such as Washington State University, Texas Agriculture & Mining, and the University of Wisconsin.

• The Role of Women in the Colonies

  • The typical woman in colonial America was expected to run a household and attend to domestic duties such as spinning, sewing, preserving food, animal husbandry, cooking, cleaning, and raising children.

• Mesolithic Art

  • The later Neolithic period is distinguished by the domestication of plants and animals.
  • When it appears in the same scene as animals, the human figure runs towards them.
  • Hunting scenes are the most common, but there are also scenes of battle and dancing, and possibly agricultural tasks and managing domesticated animals.
  • Along with humans, there are several animals, including a dead deer or buck, impaled by an arrow or atlatl, lying in the bottom center.
  • It took a thousand years into the Neolithic period before they adopted animal husbandry (which became especially important to them) and plant cultivation to any appreciable degree.

• A Diverse Population

  • German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.

• Colonial Society

  • The typical woman in colonial America was expected to run a household and attend to domestic duties such as spinning, sewing, preserving food, animal husbandry, cooking, and cleaning while raising children.

• Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

  • Animal husbandry was largely absent, with only a few animals truly domesticated.
  • Dogs, honeybees, and turkeys were the first animals to be domesticated in the Americas.