- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 6
- Job Duties:
- Job duties include: performing duties related to livestock reproductions, such as calving; monitoring food, mineral, and water supplies; herding livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures. Examine animals to detect illness, injuries, or diseases, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. This may also include providing medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arranging for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Repair fences, make sure livestock is inside, and work with horses. Livestock needs to be marked to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Must drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil, planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops. This may also include tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking, and operating stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals