About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment: Livestock.
Tasks
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas.
- Clear fields of wood and stones.
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals.
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Perform pig littering activities such as clipping needle teeth, docking tails, administering iron and other medication(s), identification of piglets, and castration.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Carry out a pasture or pen breeding programs.
- Ensure farm safety and bio-security procedures are followed.
- Maintain quality control and production records.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Area of specialization: Poultry.
- Swine.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Reliability.
- Experience: Experience an asset.