Editing Schleswig-Holstein (section)

===Animal husbandry===
[[File:Posing - Flickr - Tobi NDH.jpg|thumb|A Holstein heifer]]
The dairy and cattle farming in connection with fodder cultivation is mainly concentrated on the marshland and the bordering Geest areas. In 2020, around 1 million cattle including 360,000 dairy cows were counted in Schleswig-Holstein, rank 4th of German states. Livestock is continuously declining.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rinderbestand in Deutschland nach Bundesländern in den Jahren 2018 bis 2020|url=https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/28792/umfrage/rinderbestand-in-deutschland/|language=de|access-date=10 April 2021|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506045203/https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/28792/umfrage/rinderbestand-in-deutschland/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Schleswig-Holstein is home of the most productive dairy cattle: [[Holstein Friesian cattle|Holsteins]], which produce an average of {{Convert|8125|l|gal|abbr=on}} per year of milk. It is now the main dairy cow around the world.

Pig breeding is mainly found in the [[Schleswig-Holstein Uplands]]. In principle, Schleswig-Holstein is one of the regions with relatively few pigs (a total of around 1.6 million; in comparison [[Lower Saxony]]: over 8 million). Poultry and sheep are also of little importance in animal husbandry.<ref name="Schleswig"/>

Schleswig-Holstein had Europe's largest snake farm in [[Uetersen]] with over 600 venomous reptiles, but it closed in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=Giftlabor schließt|date=22 May 2019|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/region/pinneberg/article219673443/Warum-Europas-groesste-Schlangenfarm-am-Ende-ist.html|language=de|access-date=10 April 2021|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410113849/https://www.abendblatt.de/region/pinneberg/article219673443/Warum-Europas-groesste-Schlangenfarm-am-Ende-ist.html|url-status=live}}</ref>