- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other
enclosures. 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. Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Segregate
animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings,
pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment 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. Mix feed, additives, and
medicines in prescribed portions. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food. Perform
duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial
inseminations, and helping with animal births. 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. Operate snow removal equipment in order to operate
feed wagons. Confine livestock in stalls. Remove ice formed
in water. Drive pick-up truck to town for cattle supplies on occasion.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals