How do they match: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

  • Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

  • Animal Husbandry Worker
  • Animal Care Taker
  • Animal Caretaker
  • Animal Feeder
  • Animal Herder
  • Animal Keeper
  • Poultry Cleaner
  • Poultry Culler
  • Poultry Debeaker
  • Poultry Dresser
  • Poultry Farm Laborer
  • Poultry Farmer
  • Poultry Farmworker
  • Poultry Hatchery Laborer
  • Poultry Hatchery Man
  • Poultry Picker
  • Poultry Pinner
  • Poultry Raiser
  • Poultry Tender
  • Poultry Vaccinator
  • Poultryman
  • Farm Animal Caretaker
  • Ranch Animal Caretaker

  • Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, 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, milking, 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.

  • 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.
  • Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
  • Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.
  • Move equipment, poultry, or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or carts.
  • Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery.
  • Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, performing artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births.
  • Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
  • 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.
  • Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.

  • Care for animals.
  • Examine animals to detect illness, injury or other problems.
  • Perform animal breeding procedures.
  • Prepare materials or solutions for animal or plant use.
  • Remove skin or other body parts from animals.
  • Transport animals, crops, or equipment.
  • Treat animal injuries or illnesses.