Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal 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.
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal is Also Know as
In different settings, Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal is titled as
- Cowboy
- Farm Hand
- Farrowing Worker
- Herdsman
- Livestock Handler
- Milking Worker
- Ranch Hand
- Rancher
- Vaccinator
- Wrangler
Education and Training of Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
Training Required for Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal in different industries are
- Animal Breeders
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers
- Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Animal Caretakers
- Agricultural Technicians
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
- Animal Scientists
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Agricultural Inspectors
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
What Do Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal do?
- Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
- 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.
- Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment.
- Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions.
- 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.
- Clean stalls, pens, and equipment, using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, or pumps.
- Mark livestock to identify ownership and grade, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos.
- Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
- Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure that they have sufficient access to food.
- 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.
- Milk animals such as cows and goats, by hand or using milking machines.
- Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, and physical condition.
- Patrol grazing lands on horseback or using all-terrain vehicles.
- Maintain growth, feeding, production, and cost records.
- Groom, clip, trim, or castrate animals, dock ears and tails, or shear coats to collect hair.
- 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.
- Protect herds from predators, using trained dogs.
- Trim and shear poultry beaks, toes, and wings using debeaking machines, heated hand shears, or hot wires.
Qualities of Good Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
- Problem Sensitivity: 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.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Trunk Strength: 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.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Animal hair clippers
- Animal hair trimmers
- Animal trailers
- Animal vaccination syringes
- Automated feed batch mixers
- Automatic watering devices
- Backhoes
- Balling guns
- Blood drawing syringes
- Castration equipment
- Cattle chutes
- Cattle prods
- Claw hammers
- Debeakers
- Dehorners
- Desktop computers
- Disinfectant sprayers
- Dust and particulate respirators
- Ear taggers
- Egg candlers
- Egg grading machines
- Egg washing machines
- Electronic animal scales
- Farm trucks
- Feed conveyors
- Feed trailers
- Feed wagons
- Fumigators
- Grease guns
- Hand trucks
- Hoof trimmers
- Horse bridles
- Horse saddles
- Insecticide sprayers
- Insemination syringes
- Laptop computers
- Milking equipment sterilizers
- Milking machines
- Multipurpose tractors
- Nail trimmers
- Nebulizers
- Post hole diggers
- Poultry incubators
- Power drills
- Power saws
- Shovels
- Skid steer loaders
- Snowplows
- Tail dockers
- Veterinary intravenous IV sets
Technology Skills required for Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animal
- BCL Landview Systems WinCrop
- Farm Works Software Trac
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Word
- Spreadsheet software
- Web browser software