Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
• Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
• Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
• Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
• Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
• Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
• Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
• Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
• Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
• Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
• Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
• Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
• Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.
• Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
• Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
• Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
• Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
• Collect, inspect, and place eggs in incubators, operate machines for egg washing, candling, and grading, and pack eggs in cartons.
• Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
• Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)