The phrase "a husbandry" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward in most contexts.
It can be used when referring to the practice of farming or agriculture, but it is more often used in the plural form "husbandries" or as part of a larger phrase.
Example: "The region is known for its diverse husbandry, including both crop cultivation and livestock management."
Alternatives: "agriculture" or "farming practices".
Ms. Borek learned so much that she wrote a husbandry guide for the species; Dr. Pramuk said it would be useful for anyone raising frogs or toads.
A laboratory-scale combined "UASB + SHARON + ANAMMOX" system (Additional file 1: Figure S1; Table S1) was constructed to treat piggery wastewater (CODcr 600 3000 mg/L, NH4 +-N 500 1500 mg/L) obtained from a husbandry base affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Changping District, Beijing, China.
Most of Ferret's Yakut informants deemed the meat of foals to be of higher quality than that of adult horses, and Ferret describes a husbandry regime in which half of the new foals born each year are culled at around six months of age, at weaning.
From a husbandry point of view, hyenas are easily kept, as they have few disease problems and it is not uncommon for captive hyenas to reach 15 20 years of age.
A husbandry practice like weaning seems to be a stressful stimulus for the sow.
Evidence of transmission ratio distortion shared in all three independently breeding CC populations is also presented, suggesting a biological basis rather than a husbandry cause.
Criteria for such a protocol are that 1) DR animals have reduced reproductive fitness despite longer lifespans [7], 2) DR does not extend lifespan by reducing a husbandry-specific toxicity associated with the food source for that particular organism [12], 3) Food intake is reduced, not just food availability [23].
Female SCID/SCID CB17 mice (n = 64) of 8 10 weeks were obtained from Charles River Laboratories (Brussels, Belgium) and housed under a barrier husbandry in a well-controlled, pathogen-free environment with a 12 h light/12 h dark cycle.
There's a little husbandry required – the dead leaves should be removed to help keep the plants disease-free.
Branding for ownership is a widespread husbandry practice adopted worldwide both by traditional pastoralists and modern commercial ranchers (Landais 2001) and even reportedly by ancient Egyptians as recorded in the painting of the Nebamun tomb from 1400 BC (Wilkinson 1979).
"We had one pair of howlers in the outdoor exhibit and kept this family indoors as that was a better husbandry choice with the baby," zoo spokesperson Pamela Baker-Masson told The Huffngton Post.
