- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- Duties may include: Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions to ensure proper health and weight gain for calves. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps. Inspect, repair, and perform preventative maintenance on equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies, break ice dams, and repair and maintain watering systems for livestock & other related Livestock Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2093 (onetonline.org). Possible weekend/holiday work.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals