Animal Farming

Our ancestors had already raised dogs，pigs，cattle，sheep，and chickens about 8，000 years ago，but horse-raising started comparatively late，the domestication of these animalshad ocurred even earlier.Dogs were domesticated from the wild wolf，and could help hunters in hunting animals and also provided people with meat.Pigs，domesticated from the wild hogs，offered people their main source of meat.Sheep，also domesticated from the wild sheep，provided people with the main source of meat.Both cattle and buffalo，from different species of wild animals，could provide people with animal power and meat as wel1.Chickens，domesticated from the jungle fowls，were universally raised for satisfying people’s needsfor meat.Horse’s domestication，possibly from Mongolian wild horses by Mongolians，started much later.These so-called“Six Domesticated Animals”，dog，pig，sheep，cattle，chicken and horse，provided people with animal power for ploughing and also served as meat source，which became an organic part of an agricultural civilization.

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