livestock

[ lahyv-stok ]

/ ˈlaɪvˌstɒk /

the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.

Origin of livestock

First recorded in 1650–60; live² + stock

Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.

What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear |Doug Peacock |November 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And in the land of livestock and grassland and corral and endless highway, that is more or less everything.

The Death of a Rodeo Cowboy |Peter Richmond |May 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This was where they corralled their livestock at night, and where the warm smell of animals still lingered.

On Foot in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco |Joanna Eede |January 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The bacteria in the bowels of livestock are influenced by the antibiotics gobbled up.

Is Your Bacon on Drugs? |Kent Sepkowitz |December 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

And if that bacteria has encountered too much antibiotic in livestock feed and has developed antibiotic resistance and you eat it.

Is Your Bacon on Drugs? |Kent Sepkowitz |December 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He unfolded the sheet and scanned the charges—coercion, larceny, livestock theft, and breach of contract.

The Lani People |J. F. Bone
A survey should be made of the relation of Government grazing lands to the livestock industry.

State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge |Calvin Coolidge
Further to the east are corrals and holding pens for livestock.

Trinity [Atomic Test] Site |The National Atomic Museum
Summer livestock grazing in the mountains and uncontrolled hunting reduced wildlife to insignificance.

Area Handbook for Albania |Eugene K. Keefe
He was sorry the soldiers had helped themselves so freely to the livestock; but everything had now settled down.

Mrs. Warren's Daughter |Sir Harry Johnston

livestock

/ (ˈlaɪvˌstɒk) /

(functioning as singular or plural) cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pets, esp on a farm or ranch