- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who performs any combination of duties to attend game, such as ducks, pheasants, bears, cougars, and lions on private or state game farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds and waters game.
* Gathers bird eggs from field nests and places eggs in incubators.
* Brails (ties) wings of birds to prevent flying.
* Cleans water containers, pens, cages, and yards.
* Maintains and repairs fences, coops, pens, buildings, and equipment.
* Observes game to detect signs of illness and adds prescribed medications to food and water.
* Crates or cages game to prepare for movement.
* Transports game to release areas, filming locations, and zoos, using truck.
* Sets and maintains traps to protect birds from predatory animals.
* May operate farm equipment to cultivate and plant field crops.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stores, prepares, and delivers foods for zoo or aquarium animals. Respnsibilities include:
* Unloads meats, produce, fodder, and other food items from delivery vehicle, using handtruck.
* Sorts and stores items on shelves, in bins, or in refrigerated storage room of commissary.
* Assembles food items needed for diet of various animals as directed by supervisory personnel.
* Measures, weighs, or counts items to obtain amount of food specified for diet plans.
* Bundles fodder, washes produce, and cuts away defects.
* Sorts assembled items according to destinations, loads items into truck, and drives truck to animal quarters.
* Assists animal keeper in carrying food to preparation areas or in selecting and loading food into truck or cart.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles beehives, using handtools.
* Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies.
* Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames.
* Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen.
* Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs.
* Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice.
* Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food.
* Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming.
* Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas.
* Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution.
* Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey.
* Arranges with buyers for sale of honey.
* May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer; Queen Producer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises reptiles for exhibition, preservation, meat, venom, and skins. Respnsibilities include:
* Buys or captures reptiles, such as snakes and tortoises and keeps them in cages that simulate their natural habitat.
* Feeds and waters animals according to appropriate schedule for species.
* Examines reptile for signs of illness, injury or parasites, and administers prescribed treatment.
* Cleans animal pens, using rake and hose.
* Records breeding data.
* Kills reptiles and sells meat and skins.
* Extracts venom from live snakes.
* May specialize in raising rattlesnakes and be designated Rattlesnake Farmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises earthworms for sale as fishing bait, garden soil conditioners, and food for exotic fish and animals. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes sand, loam, and organic materials to make growing media for worms, fills growing tubs with media and adds water.
* Plants mature worms in growing media for breeding stock, spreads food materials over surface of media and covers it with burlap.
* Inspects food supply and moisture of growing media and adds water and food to maintain optimum breeding conditions for worms.
* Shovels worm-laden media onto screen and shakes screen to remove worms.
* Places specified number of worms into sales container and scoops required amount of growing media into container to sustain worms.
* Sells earthworms to buyers.
* May dry worms under heat lamps and grind and package them for sale as tropical fish food.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who breeds and raises earthworms for sale as fishing bait, garden soil conditioners, and food for exotic fish and animals. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes sand, loam, and organic materials to make growing media for worms, fills growing tubs with media and adds water.
* Plants mature worms in growing media for breeding stock, spreads food materials over surface of media and covers it with burlap.
* Inspects food supply and moisture of growing media and adds water and food to maintain optimum breeding conditions for worms.
* Shovels worm-laden media onto screen and shakes screen to remove worms.
* Places specified number of worms into sales container and scoops required amount of growing media into container to sustain worms.
* Sells earthworms to buyers.
* May dry worms under heat lamps and grind and package them for sale as tropical fish food.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers worms to be used as fish bait. Respnsibilities include:
* Walks about grassy areas, such as gardens, parks, and golf courses, after dark and picks up earthworms (commonly called dew worms and night crawlers).
* Sprinkles chlorinated water on lawn to cause worms to come to surface, and locates worms by use of lantern or flashlight.
* Sorts worms and packs them in containers for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers worms to be used as fish bait. Respnsibilities include:
* Walks about grassy areas, such as gardens, parks, and golf courses, after dark and picks up earthworms (commonly called dew worms and night crawlers).
* Sprinkles chlorinated water on lawn to cause worms to come to surface, and locates worms by use of lantern or flashlight.
* Sorts worms and packs them in containers for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes sand, loam, and specified organic materials to make growing media for breeding earthworms.
* Dumps media into growing tubs to breed earthworms, and waters and fertilizes media during breeding and growing period.
* Shovels worm-laden media onto screen, and shakes screen to separate worms.
* Counts earthworms, sorts them according to size, and packs them in containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attends bee colony to produce queen bees. Respnsibilities include:
* Fits bar containing cell cups grafted with bee larvae into notched hive frame to prepare frame for placement in cell building hive in which bees form queen cells on cup base.
* Blows smoke into hive to quiet bees, using smoke producing device.
* Reads grafting date, opens hive, and inserts frame in sequence by date.
* Pulls out queen cell frame of specified age and places frame in incubator to continue maturation process.
* Opens hive and pours sugar on tops of frames to feed bees.
* Mixes and kneads specified types and quantities of ingredients to make bee candy.
* Presses piece of candy into end of queen shipping cage to provide food for queen and workers during shipping.
* May construct shipping cages.
* May select and collect queen bees meeting specified criteria for shipping.
Industry:Professional careers
