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Live stock, the word 'livestock' includes animals of every description. It is not confined to domestic animals, Royal Hatcheries v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1994 SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429.

Livestock means domestic animal especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (see Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by-products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (713).

Means farm animals and includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, horses, mules, yaks, pigs, ducks, geese, poultry and their young but does not include any animal specified in Schedules I to V. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(18A)]