This paper takes the period from 2005 to 2022 as the examination period, and discusses the dynamic evolution law and spatial correlation characteristics of China's animal husbandry on the basis of re-measuring its carbon emissions and analyzing its current characteristics. The results show that the total amount of carbon emissions from China's animal husbandry in the study period has fluctuated, but the overall trend is declining, the carbon emission intensity has been in a continuous downward trend, only the inter-annual rate of decline is different, cattle and hog feeding is the key driver of carbon emissions from the animal husbandry. In 2022, the carbon emissions of the animal husbandry in each province and region were significantly different, and the top 10regions were mainly identified as core livestock production areas or grain production areas. The carbon emissions intensity of the animal husbandry in the interprovincial area was characterized by a distribution pattern of 'high in the northwest and low in the southeast'. The 30 provinces and regions were categorized into four types, such as those driven by cattle feeding and those driven by hog feeding, based on the composition of the carbon emissions of the animal husbandry in each region. During the study period, the carbon emission intensity of the animal husbandry as a whole, as well as that of cattle and sheep rearing, showed an obvious downward trend and the inter-provincial gap narrowed significantly; while the carbon emission intensity of hog rearing also declined, but the inter-provincial gap widened significantly. During the study period, the carbon emission intensity of China's animal husbandry has always had a significant spatial dependence, with low-low agglomeration as the main focus and high-high agglomeration as the secondary focus, and showing the characteristic of “the low is always low and the high is always high”.