### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Livestock
* All livestock continues to alter their environment
  - have parasites, some of which cause problems such as ill health and low productivity
* Many livestock die or suffer from diseases that are easily treatable with the proper resources.
* Most livestock carries organisms.
* Most livestock eats flowers
  - hay
  - leaves
  - poisonous plants
  - shrubs
  - feeds on plants
  - grazes mountain meadows
  - has diets
  - is exported as embryos or semen
  - makes waste
  - needs diets
  - produces methane
  - stands in barns
* Some livestock affects land use patterns
  - competes for food
  - consumes flowers
* Some livestock eats burdocks
  - common burdocks
  - ferns
  - fruit
  - roots
  - gives birth to calves
* Some livestock grazes in bottoms
  - valley bottoms
* Some livestock infects animals
  - wild animals
  - is raised to provide a mode of transportation or to carry out farm work
  - makes gases
  - reduces water intake
  - relates to organisms
  - transmits diseases
* also affect wildlife through social displacement.
* are a common cause of injuries among rural children
  - source of nitrates and fecal bacteria that can be harmful to stream health
* are also a favorite target of lions in both India and Africa
  - valued source of income for poor farmers, especially women
  - at risk for rabies in that there is more opportunity for contact
  - one of the major vectors for diseases transmitted to native wildlife
  - susceptible to nitrate poisoning, especially cattle
  - another source of methane
  - both area and species-selective
  - currency
* are farm animals like cattle
  - such as cows, sheep, pigs and goats
  - animals, such as beef cattle, dairy cows, sheep, hogs, chickens and turkeys
  - in a more natural environment
  - more likely to impact hardwood trees than conifers
  - one of the major factors in the spread of exotic weeds
  - selective about the plants they eat
  - the culprits of overgrazing soil compaction
* are the number cause of riparian degradation in the West
  - one cause of riparian degradation in the West
  - unaffected by the presence of wind farms
  - used by humans for a variety of purposes, many of which have an economic value
* browsing on fruits can disperse seeds to new sites.
* can also infect wild animals with some diseases
  - become invisible at the onset of darkness
  - contribute in various ways on a farm
  - damage salmon habitat in several ways
  - graze or feed
  - improve environmental quality when used in traditional farming systems
  - rotate to pastures with warm-season species during late spring and summer
* cause rapid erosion of woodlots by clearing, cultivating and compacting the soil.
* come in contact with blister beetles when they consume infested alfalfa hay
  - many shapes and forms
* commodity like any other and is, of course, traded as such.
* compete with chiru for grazing land, and fences disrupt migration.
* consists mainly of pig and poultry.
* consists of chickens, cows, pigs and goats
  - goats, sheep, cattle and pigs
  - sheep, goats, cattle, horses and yaks
  - predominantly of cattle
* constitutes the major source of livelihood.
* consume the foliage primarily in the spring and immediately after rainy periods.
* currently graze on half the Earth's land mass.
* destroys fruit.
* die from many causes, including illness, predation, and extreme weather conditions.
* does damage.
* drink more water and consume more forage when provided good quality water.
* eat common burdock but the foliage can impart a bitter taste to the milk
  - crop residues
  - much of the world's grain
* exert a huge, and largely unrecognized, impact on the global environment.
* feeding on leafy spurge can become photosensitive.
* grazes areas
  - forest areas
* grazes in bighorn sheep habitats
  - elevation habitats
  - high elevation habitats
  - on pasture
  - turnip tops
* guarding dogs reduce predation on domestic sheep in Colorado.
  - responses
* have a tendency to walk along fences causing trails to be formed
  - access to woodland during a majority of the grazing season
  - both positive and negative environmental effects
* have limited access to water body areas
  - multiple roles in human society
  - numerous and important roles within agro-pastoral economies
* herding dogs are bred, raised and trained specifically to work with a farmer or shepherd
  - relatively popular as pets
* highly perishable product requiring special care.
* includes cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, and poultry
  - sheep, wool, hogs, and milk
  - cell membranes
  - chinchillas, mink, foxes and other furbearing animals
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - pigs, cattle, and sheep
  - sections
  - sheep, cattle, goats, donkeys, horses, camels, buffalo, and mules
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - water buffaloes, cattle, and pigs
  - whatever animals the farmer owns
* is Somalia's main export to Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  - also important to the food supply
  - assumed to include all types of animals raised for pleasure or for profit
  - defined in the bill as cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, and goats
  - killed every year
* is located in fairgrounds
  - fields
  - primarily cattle, hogs, and poultry
  - raised on grass or grains grown on the farm
  - seen as a symbol of wealth and is often exchanged for bride prices
* is the backbone of the pastoralist economy, in a region closely tied to Somalia
  - number one segment of the Texas agricultural industry
* mainly consists of sheep and goats, which are herded in the mountain areas
  - includes beef and dairy cattle and pigs, combined with crops
* make up an important part of the country's rural economy.
* makes up a major portion of Utah's agriculture revenue
* mays have health problems
* means cash income.
* means the income for education at secondary schools
  - possibility of sending their kids to university
* modify their intake and diet selection to rectify nutritional imbalances.
* musts have food.
* now accounts for over one-third of the total agricultural production value.
* often contract diseases from being in close proximity with wild boars.
* play a vital role in the agricultural and rural economies of the developing world
  - an important role in the overall plan to maintain soil fertility
* plays an important role in most peasant families' finances.
* predominates over crop farming, and cattle predominate over other forms of livestock.
* produce a range of fiber textiles.
  - three to four times the amount of waste that of the average person
* provide meat for human and animal consumption.
* raising in the U.S. is largely responsible for loss of topsoil.
* readily graze halogeton
  - on the stems, leaves and roots of rutabaga plants
* refers to beef, sheep, swine, poultry, dairy, and horse
  - camels, cattle, and sheep and goats
* release a large amounts of ammonia into the environment from their wastes.
* releases methane.
* remove less than ten percent of the forages' phosphorus and potassium.
* require less feed energy, so their performance is improved and mortality is reduced
  - to maintain body weight when protected from winter's chilling winds
* requires treatments.
* seeking shade beneath trees often seek any source of green.
* shares resources.
* sometimes slobber excessively when feeding on second-cutting red clover hay.
* stored energy source.
* suffer from parasitic diseases, some of which also affect humans.
* tend to balk if they have to look into the sun
  - be larger and thus produce more manure
* tends to be more important in small properties in the mountainous regions.
* threaten the sheep by grazing off desert grasses and spreading wildlife diseases.
* typically graze alfalfa from the top down.
* usually recover quickly from excretory shrinkage once provided with rest, food, and water.
* vary in the amount of prussic acid that it takes to be fatal.