livestock labourer
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work setting:
Rural area. Staff accommodation provided. Relocation costs not covered by employer. Willing to relocate. Fencing.
Tasks:
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas.
- Develop and guide the behaviour of farm animals.
- Diagnose livestock health issues.
- Disinfect pens, barns or poultry houses.
- Handling animals.
- Marking livestock as proof of ownership.
- Monitor the calving process.
- Monitoring animal health.
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work.
- Perform livestock feeding.
- Prepare a clean, dry area for cows that are calving.
- Weaning.
- Harvest crops.
- Feed and tend animals.
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment.
- Maintain livestock performance records.
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens.
- Maintain work records and logs.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Perform general farm duties.
- Set and monitor water lines, air flow and temperature in barns, pens and chicken coops.
- Report information to supervisor.
Equipment and machinery experience:
Loader.
Screening questions:
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
Experience:
1 year to less than 2 years.
Other benefits:
On-site housing options.