- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Duties may include: 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. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to help with crop planting and maintenance, & other related Farm Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2093 (onetonline.org). Possible weekend/holiday work. Daily shift times may vary depending on weather, crops, and livestock needs.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals