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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 Laborer”

Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
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.
Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.
Collect, inspect, and place eggs in incubators, operate machines for egg washing, candling, and grading, and pack eggs in cartons.
Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
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.
Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
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.
Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.
Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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