When Were Animals First Used For Farming?
When Were Animals First Used For Farming? The first animals to be domesticated for food use are thought to be sheep, between 11,000 and 9,000 B.C. in Southwest Asia. Goats followed later around 8,000 BC. When did farming animals begin? Sometime around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors began trying their hand at farming. First,