What term means care and management of animals?

• A. Animal Care
• B. Animal Health
• C. Animal Husbandry
• D. Animal Production

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is the broad, integrated practice of keeping and improving domesticated animals. Animal husbandry encompasses the care, feeding, housing, breeding, health management, and welfare of livestock to optimize productivity and well-being. It isn’t just daily care or health alone—it includes strategies for reproduction, genetics, nutrition plans, vaccination and disease prevention, and record-keeping that guide how a herd or flock is raised.

Animal care sounds like welfare and daily needs, but it doesn’t necessarily include breeding or production planning. Animal health focuses specifically on disease prevention and treatment rather than overall management. Animal production refers to the outputs (meat, milk, wool) rather than the practices used to raise the animals. Therefore, the term that best fits “care and management of animals” is animal husbandry.