- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- 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.
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. Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles. 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.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals