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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 “Sorting Livestock Worker”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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