- 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. Maintain heated watering system. 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. Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost
records. 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