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

  • Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

  • Animal Care Taker
  • Animal Caretaker
  • Animal Feeder
  • Animal Herder
  • Animal Husbandry Worker
  • Animal Keeper
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Transport animals, crops, or equipment.
  • Treat animal injuries or illnesses.