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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 “Dipper”

Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals.
Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
Spray livestock with disinfectants and insecticides, or dip or bathe animals.
Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
Collect, inspect, and place eggs in incubators, operate machines for egg washing, candling, and grading, and pack eggs in cartons.
Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
Examine animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.
Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.
Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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