- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who cares for horses and mules to protect their health and improve their appearance. Respnsibilities include:
* Waters animals and measures, mixes and apportions feed and feed supplements according to feeding instructions.
* Washes, brushes, trims and curries animals' coats to clean and improve their appearance.
* Inspects animals for disease, illness, and injury and treats animals according to instructions.
* Cleans animals' quarters and replenishes bedding.
* Exercises animals.
* Unloads and stores feed and supplies.
* May whitewash stables, using brush.
* May clean saddles and bridles.
* May saddle animals.
* May shoe animals.
* May be designated according to animal cared for as Horse Tender; Mule Tender; Stallion Keeper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks on dairy farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Washes and sprays cows with water, insecticides, and repellants.
* Flushes, brushes, and scrapes refuse from walls and floors to minimize infestation.
* Examines cows and reports estrus, injuries, and disease to supervisor.
* Administers prescribed treatments and reports problems requiring veterinary attention to supervisor.
* Weighs, loads, mixes, and distributes feed.
* Replaces bedding in stalls.
* Herds cows from milking parlor to pasture.
* Loads animals to be sold onto trucks.
* Cleans and sterilizes milk containers and equipment, and tends pumps that automatically clean milk pipelines.
* Milks cows by hand and using milking machine.
* Cultivates, harvests, and stores feed crops, using farm equipment, such as trucks and tractors.
* May build and maintain fences and farm facilities.
* May repair and lubricate equipment and machinery.
* May maintain data, such as breeding and cost records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks on dairy farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Washes and sprays cows with water, insecticides, and repellants.
* Flushes, brushes, and scrapes refuse from walls and floors to minimize infestation.
* Examines cows and reports estrus, injuries, and disease to supervisor.
* Administers prescribed treatments and reports problems requiring veterinary attention to supervisor.
* Weighs, loads, mixes, and distributes feed.
* Replaces bedding in stalls.
* Herds cows from milking parlor to pasture.
* Loads animals to be sold onto trucks.
* Cleans and sterilizes milk containers and equipment, and tends pumps that automatically clean milk pipelines.
* Milks cows by hand and using milking machine.
* Cultivates, harvests, and stores feed crops, using farm equipment, such as trucks and tractors.
* May build and maintain fences and farm facilities.
* May repair and lubricate equipment and machinery.
* May maintain data, such as breeding and cost records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shears wool from live sheep, using power-driven clippers or hand shears. Respnsibilities include:
* Places animal in shearing station.
* Clips wool close to hide so that fleece is removed in one piece and exercises care to nick or cut skin as little as possible.
* Herds shorn animal into runway leading to pen.
* Oils and sharpens clippers and shears.
* May tie fleece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that milks dairy cows. Respnsibilities include:
* Guides cow into stanchion and washes teats and udder of cow with disinfectant.
* Squeezes cow's teat to collect sample of milk in strainer cup and examines sample for curd and blood.
* Starts milking machine and attaches cups of machine to teats of cow.
* Removes cups when required amount of milk is obtained from cow.
* Dips cups of machine into disinfectant solution after each cow is milked.
* Pumps milk from receptacles into storage tank and cleans and sterilizes equipment.
* May notify farm manager of possible diseases or problems in milking cows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that milks dairy cows. Respnsibilities include:
* Guides cow into stanchion and washes teats and udder of cow with disinfectant.
* Squeezes cow's teat to collect sample of milk in strainer cup and examines sample for curd and blood.
* Starts milking machine and attaches cups of machine to teats of cow.
* Removes cups when required amount of milk is obtained from cow.
* Dips cups of machine into disinfectant solution after each cow is milked.
* Pumps milk from receptacles into storage tank and cleans and sterilizes equipment.
* May notify farm manager of possible diseases or problems in milking cows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds and ties wool fleece into bundle for sacking or grading. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes heavy tags, dung locks, and badly stained wool from fleece.
* Spreads fleece on floor with hide side up.
* Folds loose ends inside and rolls fleece into compact bundle, tying bundle with twisted wool or paper twine.
* Tosses bundle aside for sacking or grading.
* May shear sheep.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attends herd of goats. Respnsibilities include:
* Herds goats from corral to fresh pastures.
* Assists does during kidding season.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who skins small fur-bearing animals, such as foxes, weasels, mink, and muskrats, for their pelts, using skinning knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who skins small fur-bearing animals, such as foxes, weasels, mink, and muskrats, for their pelts, using skinning knife.
Industry:Professional careers
