livestock

livestock
1. any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land or the carrying on of any agricultural activity: Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
2. cattle, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry and deer not in the wild state: Animals Act 1971. See also Animals (Scotland) Act 1987, which is in different terms.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.

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