Domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor

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A study of cows in various positions. Engraving.

An elaborate cross-section of Noah's ark, detailing the storing of provisions and livestock; scenes of loading and construction. Line engraving.

Super Solvitax : vitamin rich pure cod liver oil : stabilised and winterised / British Cod Liver Oils (Hull & Grimsby) Ltd.

Your organic questions answered / Soil Association.

Two cattle fighting while a third one lies facing away from them. Etching.

A bull standing with a cow eating hay from the ground. Etching.

A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.

A fat judge pinching and admiring the fat on the side of a fat bullock. Etching by J. Gillray, ca 1802.

Three trees by the road to a farm, with wooden hut and haystack. Pencil drawing.

Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

Cattle and dairy farming.

The government of cattel : Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine, and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the gouernment of horses, with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them. Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals, and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds; and hath been already approved, and by long experience entertained amongst all sorts; especially husbandmen, who have made use thereof, to their great profit and contentment. Gathered by Leonard Mascal.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

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Livestock

Images from the collections

Images about Livestock

Works from the collections

Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

Cattle and dairy farming.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

Livestock

Images from the collections

Images about Livestock

Works from the collections

Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

Cattle and dairy farming.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

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