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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 “Egg Setter”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

Farm Works Software Trac
Web browser software
Spreadsheet software
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