farm worker - livestock

Your 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.

• Poultry.
• Swine.

Requirements

Education No degree, certificate or diploma.

Personal suitability

• Reliability.

Experience an asset.

Other

Work site environment Livestock.

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Standing for extended periods.
• Bending, crouching, kneeling.