- 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. Maintain heated watering
system. 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. 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.
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. Remove ice formed in water. Drive pick-up truck to town for cattle supplies on
occasion.Livestock : Beef Cattle
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals