Farmworkers, Farm and Ranch Animals

Attend to live farm, ranch, or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas.

Job Task

• Waters livestock.
• Applies or administers medications and vaccinates animals.
• Cleans stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels and water hoses.
• Marks livestock to identify ownership, and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
• Moves equipment, poultry, or livestock manually or using truck or cart from one location to another.
• Inspects and repairs fences, stalls, and pens.
• Maintains growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
• Mixes feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
• Collects, inspects, packs or places eggs in incubator.
• Milks farm animals, such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machine.
• Fills feed troughs with feed.
• Debeaks and trims wings of poultry.
• Assists with birthing of animals.
• Maintains equipment and machinery.
• Segregates animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
• Grooms, clips, and trims animals.
• Castrates or docks ears and tails of animals.
• Sprays livestock with disinfectants and insecticides.
• Examines animals to detect disease and injuries.
• Herds livestock to pasture for grazing, or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.

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