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Job Description

Attend to live farm, ranch, or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep, and collect eggs in hatcheries.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2093.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 26,840.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 12.00
Currently, there are 35,670 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals”.

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Tasks for “Breeder Hen Service Technician”

Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.
Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
Collect, inspect, and place eggs in incubators, operate machines for egg washing, candling, and grading, and pack eggs in cartons.
Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.
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.
Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
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.
Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.

Related Technology & Tools

Farm trucks
Nebulizers
Feed wagons
Feed conveyors
Egg washing machines
Claw hammers
Milking equipment sterilizers
Power saws
Automated feed batch mixers
Laptop computers
Balling guns
Castration equipment
Snowplows
Milking machines
Nail trimmers
Tail dockers
Animal trailers
Skid steer loaders
Disinfectant sprayers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Shovels
Backhoes
Electronic animal scales
Poultry incubators
Horse saddles
Blood drawing syringes
Egg grading machines
Post hole diggers
Desktop computers
Egg candlers
Insecticide sprayers
Grease guns
Feed trailers
Ear taggers
Debeakers
Power drills
Animal vaccination syringes
Automatic watering devices
Multipurpose tractors
Animal hair trimmers
Cattle prods
Hand trucks
Insemination syringes
Hoof trimmers
Animal hair clippers
Dehorners
Veterinary intravenous IV sets
Fumigators
Horse bridles
Cattle chutes
Dust and particulate respirators

Spreadsheet software
BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
Farm Works Software Trac
Web browser software