Livestock
Livestock, also called domestic animals, are animals husbanded by humans for their labour, transport, meat, fur, hides and other animal products. Most animals raised for human production are mammals, though viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid
Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. species are also kept as working animals and for riding or pulling vehicles.
| Aubrac | Aubrac The aubrac is a domesticated horned mammal kept for milk and meat throughout the civilised world. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. The aubrac is the result of hundreds of years of breeding from the semi-wild aurox, but aubracs generally have smaller horns, are less massive, and far less aggressive. Many breeds of aubrac exist and they are kept throughout the civilised world |
| Aurox | Aurox The aurox is a semi-domesticated herd mammal native to the tropical grasslands of Anásthias, where they are essential to the livelihood of nomadic tribesmen in the Othei Plains of western Ororr and the grasslands of Otekahré. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. Aurox are very large quadrupeds with short glossy yellow-brown fur and sharp forward-thrusting horns, mounted on a large head with powerful shoulders. Herds have a dominant matriarch and a number of dominant… |
| Boretray | Boretray Boretray [BOH-reh-tray], along with soay, are the commonest domestic livestock in Anásthias and throughout the Civilised World. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. fauna mammals green livestock |
| Dog | Dog Dogs are common canid mammals kept as working animals and pets throughout the Civilised World. They are particularly used in hunting, to bring down game or locate animals shot by arrow. They are also to guard homes, and for companionship. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Civilised WorldMunatan |
| Drort | Drort Drort are domestic animals found throughout Anásthias, seen pulling wagons and every type of commercial and domestic conveyance. Unusually for domestic livestock they are virid creatures, omnivorous and unusually tolerant to green grazing, nibbling virid weeds and pests common in roadsides and hedgerows. They are rarely seen in virid |
| Garron | Garron Garrons are domestic mammals found principally in Anrel and other northern islands, used for riding and to pull carts and carriages. They are cousins of the horsis, the fierce fighting beast now only found in the heraldry of the Anrel kingdoms. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Anrel |
| Hog | Hog Hogs are common domestic animals found throughout the Civilised World, except in central Ororr, where the climate is too hot and dry for them to thrive. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. The common wild hog has short tusks which they use to dig roots and grubs from the soil. Wild hogs have a certain degree of viridvirid |
| Orikalk | Orikalk The orikalk, or oryk, is a horned quadruped mammal, distantly related to the ovor. They are primarily found in the southern Natorn Isles, and live green woodland and scrubland in the northern and eastern peninsulas of Anásthias. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. They are most numerous in dry grassland such as found in western |
| Ovors | Ovors Ovors [OH-vor] (also ovorr, plural ovorn) are common domestic herd animals found throughout the Civilised World, used for their meat, skins and wool. They are agile creatures with a thick matted fur and small conical horns for defence, though many herdsmen blunt these. |
| Pullet | Pullet Pullets are small flightless birds kept domestically for their eggs and meat. They are omnivores, feeding on grains and seeds, and also scratch the ground for worms and insects. They are not highly virid tolerant, but will attack and kill small virid pests that come too close. |
| Soay | Soay The soay [SO-ay] is a breed of domestic animal, bred for its meat, skin and fur. Soay were bred in Miyarris, along with the boretray, and are now common across Anásthias with a myriad of local breeds of distinctive size, colour and shape. Fauna This is in a series of articles about Animals. |
tag/livestock.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/15 06:23 by Robert How · []