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Horses are considered livestock in the United States. [2] The USDA classifies pork, veal, beef, and lamb as livestock, and all livestock as red meat. Poultry and fish are not included in the category. [3] The latter is likely due to the fact that fish products are not governed by the USDA, but by the FDA.
There is no single universally agreed definition of which species are livestock. Widely agreed types of livestock include cattle for beef and dairy, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. Various other species are sometimes considered livestock, such as horses, [47] while poultry birds are sometimes excluded. In some parts of the world, livestock ...
Liniers cattle market, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009. The commodity status of animals is the legal status as property of most non-human animals, particularly farmed animals, working animals and animals in sport, and their use as objects of trade.
The horse industry, or equine industry, is the economic activity associated with horses. This includes core agribusiness activities related to the use, possession or ownership of horses, as well as leisure activities and related economic activity that provides associated goods and services.
The importance of sheep was such that, even in the accounting books for payment of livestock taxes, the “serviciadores” (servicemen) reduced cows to sheep for accounting purposes, [32] typically 6 six sheep for every cow or horse; because there were so few cows and horses, they didn’t detract from the value of the figures. [33]
The notion of "meat horse" is a French specificity: [1] this term designates a livestock animal, the horse raised for the production of meat.Rural historian Marcel Mavré analyzes it as a degradation of the draft horse, the meat horse being a direct descendant of the draft horse, which is a working animal. [2]
A farmer's barn may be subdivided into animal stalls or pens for cows and other livestock. Tie stalls are a type of stall where animals are tethered at the neck to their stall. It is mostly used in the dairy industry, although horses might also be stalled in tie stalls (often referred to as stands or straight stalls). Typical the barn has two ...
The traditional standard for height of a horse or a pony at maturity is 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm). An animal 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) or over is usually considered to be a horse and one less than 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm) a pony, [31]: 12 but there are many