- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Attend to live farm animals such as bees, cattle, sheep, pigs including feeding, watering, sorting, birthing, vaccinating, marketing. Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Feeding and sorting cows/heifers, calving, cleaning work area, assisting in vaccination of calves, driving pickup to get supplies; sell yearling calves, monitor calves on grass pasture, assess injuries; receive stocker calves, Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures; move to grass pasture for grazing, pull calves off grass at dormancy to be taken to market and sold; Inspect and Maintain Pens and enclosures; Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition. Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps. Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals