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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 “Livestock Caretaker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Web browser software
Spreadsheet software
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