Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
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.
At a Glance
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals earns a median of $36,150/yr with -5.0% projected growth. Typical entry: No formal educational credential. Top skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software.
$36,150/yr
-5.0%
31
No formal educational credential
Skills & Requirements
Skills (2)
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Abilities (7)
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
Technology (3)
Work Activities (17)
Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
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